Author: Mave Fellowes
Year: 2013
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Historical fiction, Award winners
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9780871407443
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With Chaplin & Company, a charming coming-of-age story set amid the grim magic of London's canals, Mave Fellowes has quickly established herself as one of the most exciting new voices to emerge from England.
When young Odeline Milk is left orphaned by her mother, she casts off her identity as a suburban outcast and moves to the big city in pursuit of her dream to become a great mime. So it must be fate when she finds a houseboat available--in London's peculiar canal neighborhood--called, of all things, Chaplin & Company. Though she starts out determined to keep to herself, she's quickly drawn into the dramatic lives of the larger-than-life and down-on-their-luck characters in the world around her.
Fellowes's deceptively smooth prose vibrates with the weird but lovable world she's built. Chaplin & Company is, indeed, "a deeply quirky and very charming first novel" (The Times).
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