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|title=Chaplin and Company

|sort=Chaplin and Company

|publisher=Jonathan Cape

|date=May 2013

|summary=With a gloriously eccentric main character, this quirky book tells both the stories of those living on London's canals and also of one boat in particular and its strange history of owners.

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In ''Chaplin & Company'', Mave Fellowes takes a quirky look at life on London's canal boats. Yet, while her story is full of eccentric characters, not least the main human character of Odeline Milk, who moves to the boat that shares the title of the book after her mother passes away to pursue her dream of becoming a mime artist in the more culturally enlightened big city after a lonely life in provincial Arundel, the book is delightfully free of sentimentality. I say the main human character, because this is also the story of a boat with a remarkable history of owners, and also a story of the strange life on the canal which somehow exists beneath the city through which it flows.