Rest of the World - Tracked and Signed 10-15 working days.Rest of the World - Standard 15-20 working days.Europe - Tracked and Signed 4-7 working days.Free Click and Collect at Daunt Books Marylebone.If one or more items are not available when you place your order there may be a delay in dispatch, so that we can send your items in as few parcels as possible. Items are usually dispatched within twenty-four to seventy-two hours. It's hard for a seventeen year old to give up on life, even with a broken heart, when she has so much interest in people and writing.Orders are processed and dispatched Monday to Friday. The story goes on, often funny, with a gentle tragedy for young Cassandra that somehow seems it will work out right in the end.

Prayer's a very tricky business.' Earlier he explained that God is 'merely shorthand for where we come from, where we're going, and what it's all about.'Ĭassandra wrestles with a few hours of determining to 'get religion' and do good works, but then she realizes that some people might use religion as a means of avoiding 'life' and she knows she doesn't want to bypass the good and bad of living. Cassandra has realized that she is in love with her sister's fiance, and, although she doesn't know it, the vicar understands she is troubled. The vicar is more of a friend than pastor to the family he is well-educated and one of the few people that the girls or their father know in the small village. But this little story, written from the point of view of the younger sister by way of her journal, captures more than just the castle as young Cassandra discovers life and love and the wide world beyond genteel poverty.Īlthough Smith's story is not meant to be challenging, I like a small section where Cassandra talks to the local vicar about religion. The story is quite simple with shades of Jane Austen two poor girls with no prospects live with their eccentric parents in a rundown ruin of an English castle then the rich neighbors move in and life is changed forever. This book, a discovery by my aunt in Connecticut, is such a charming work that I can't understand why I never read it before.

I capture the castle