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'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink' is the first line of this timeless, witty and enchanting novel about growing up. Cassandra Mortmain lives with her bohemian and impoverished family in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere. Her journal records her life with her beautiful, bored sister, Rose, her fadingly glamorous stepmother, Topaz, her little brother Thomas and her eccentric novelist father who suffers from a financially crippling writer's block. However, all their lives are turned upside down when the American heirs to the castle arrive and Cassandra finds herself falling in love for the first time...
| ISBN | 0099460874 | | Pages | 432 | | ISBN13 | 9780099460879
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 325 | | Publisher | Vintage | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Vintage | | Series title | Vintage Classics | | Format | Paperback | | Previous ISBN | 9781860491023 | | Publication date | 31 Jan 2004 | | Height (mm) | 199 | | Writer of introduction | Valerie Grove | | Width (mm) | 130 | | Library of Congress | PR6037.M38 | | Spine width (mm) | 25 | | DEWEY | 823.912 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Alternative ISBN | 9781572702240 |
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