Chaplin & Company
By: Mave Fellowes
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780871407443
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Courage; Mime; Neighborhoods; Artists; Orphans; Fiction
Other titles: Chaplin and Company
Description: An artistic orphan moves to London to follow her dream of becoming a mime and forges friendships with an illegal alien, a good-looking bum, and an old drunk after moving onto a longboat in a canal.

Odeline Milk takes her small inheritance and leaves her sleepy hometown behind in search of a lifestyle better suited to her artistic temperament. She moves to London to pursue her single-minded dream of becoming, of all things, a great mime in the tradition of Charlie Chaplin and Marcel Marceau. To save money she moves onto a longboat, auspiciously named Chaplin and Company, in London's canal neighborhood of Little Venice. There she stumbles upon a peculiar underbelly of the city, full of marginalized, eccentric figures.