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Chaplin & Company

โœ Scribed by Mave Fellowes


Publisher
Liveright
Year
2014
Tongue
English
Weight
186 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0871407612

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โœฆ Synopsis


A coming-of-age tale brimming with charm, heartache, and the peculiar magic of London's canals.When eighteen-year-old Odeline Milk is left orphaned by her mother, she 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.

But like many a solitary wanderer before her, Odeline finds that the London of her imagination isn't quite consistent with the reality. 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. A stern young woman, Odeline is serious about her art and uninterested in forming what she considers to be distracting new relationships. But little by little,...


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