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Chaplin & Company (2014)

by Mave Fellowes(Favorite Author)

3.55 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0871407442 (ISBN13: 9780871407443)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Liveright Publishing Corporation

review 1: I loved this book! It is the kind of book you do not want to put down from beginning to end. It takes you to another time and play and you experience life as Odeline Milk lives it. She is set free from a very sheltered existence by her mothers death. She is now free to go out and live her dream as a professional magician. No more children's parties for her. She also is anxious to find the father she never knew about. Odeline has big dreams and as often happens in the real world, these dreams don't always become reality. But what happens to her along the way is very entertaining and mesmerizing and well worth the read.
review 2: Compelling with superb insight into human nature. Astute observations. Wonderful detail. I loved this book! Odeline's mother di... morees prematurely, leaving the 19-20-year-old alone but not destitute. Her mother was an accountant/bookkeeper in suburbia in modern times. Odeline buys a canal longboat in London, hoping to keep expenses down while practicing the art of mime and finding a job doing what she does best in the city. Her father is a well-known and loved clown in a traveling circus, and Odeline naturally wishes to find him. The marvelous array of characters that inhabit the canal area near Odeline's home/boat will beguile readers. The author's realistic rendering of all characters in the book stands out. There are no perfect people here. Some stories are long remembered and this will be one of those for me. It's the story of people and the history of a boat and those associated with her. Fetchingly told, its a book I'd recommend to everyone. Loved this book! less

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