The Class Castle is a book about a family of six, whose parents have an interesting perspective about life and a unique way with their children which is in many situations dangerous and neglectful and in other ways they enabled their children to become independent, strong and successful. The book is written from the point of view of one of the children as a personal memoir. She tells her story with out self pity and is very good at describing how she was brought up and how her life evolved without passing judgment, while at the same time showing her dissaproval and telling the reader that she did not always buy into her parents' dilutions.