I write this sitting in the kitchen sink\' is the first line of this timeless, witty and enchanting novel about growing up.
However, all their lives are tu.
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.
Cassandra Mortmain lives with her bohemian and impoverished family in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere.
I write this sitting in the kitchen sink\' is the first line of this timeless, witty and enchanting novel about growing up