← Dodie SmithI Capture the Castleby Dodie SmithNovel of a girl's life in a crumbling castle during political upheavalFind on Amazon↗About the authorDodie SmithSmith was a novelist and playwright best known for I Capture the Castle, a classic first-person narrative of adolescent romantic imagination. Her sharp observation of English middle-class life is combined with genuine emotional warmth.More by Dodie SmithThe Town in Bloom→The New Moon with the Old→It Ends with Revelations→