Near a canal
By: Wheldon Curzon-Hobson
Publisher: Ebury Street
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Auckland, N.Z.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Journalists; Fiction
Description: Charles Latimer, who works for a successful publisher in London, witnesses the murder of a stranger who is helping the poor. He decides to give up his job and befriends an American couple living on a canal boat who introduce him to an extraordinary society of artists, poets and the homeless. Sleeping on a bench beside the canal, Charles begins a new life as a journalist writing about the artists and poets and the remarkable lives they lead. Charles discovers romance, wonderful friends, and publishes their work to undreamed of acclaim.
Notes: Novel.