Through six turbulent months of 1934, 17-year-old cassandra mortmain keeps a journal, filling three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries about her home, a ruined suffolk castle, and her eccentric and pennile...Through six turbulent months of 1934, 17-year-old cassandra mortmain keeps a journal, filling three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries about her home, a ruined suffolk castle, and her eccentric and penniless family.