Chaplin and company
By: by Mave Fellowes
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9780224097352; 9781448139712
Subjects: Mimes; Fiction; Inheritance and succession; Canals; Canal-boats
Description: "Introducing...Odeline Milk, a strange young lady from a sleepy, buttoned-down market town. A young lady with an obsession - you can guess what it is by the way she dresses: white collarless shirt, a waistcoat and billowing black trousers, the bowler hat. She's on her way to London, to make her name as a great mime artist. She hopes. And typical Odeline, she's arriving prepared. With the small inheritance left her by her mother, she's bought herself a home, an old canal boat. What she doesn't know yet is that for some the city's canals have an appeal of their own. They are below the eyeline, a sort of halfworld, a good place to hide for a community of curious outsiders, all with their own stories to tell, stories which might help a certain young lady to think differently about life. Because there's a lot Odeline doesn't know. Not least, that her new home has a history of its own."--Publisher description.