Mary Wesley takes you by the hand and you follow wherever she takes you

Mary Wesley does it again, only more so... She marches straight into her tale, intriguing from the beginning, keeping up a pace that rarely slackens

Wesley breezes along with customary grace and nonchalance, sniping maliciously at her characters while giving them a more or less good time

Lively and entertaining

Wesley's books are a delight...a beautifully crafted tale, very sexy, very funny, I just didn't want it to end

It is an occasion worth celebrating when a sparkling novel, a work of wit, irony and feeling is brought back into print after an absence of many years. So uncork the champagne for I Capture the Castle

This rite of passage story about a precocious teenager and her eccentric family is romantic, off-beat and totally magical

Influential and much loved novel

Much more fun than the reader has any right to expect

It's as fresh as if it were written this morning and as classic as Jane Austen. I'm very happy to have met it

A good story, flourishing characters, and the most persuasive narrative voice

A classic tale of the triumph of youthful naivety over middle-aged cynicism

Classic coming of age novel