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A big debut novel -- a perfect blend of the quirky and commercial, in the vein of "When God Was a Rabbit."
Introducing... Odeline Milk, a strange young lady from a sleepy, buttoned-down market town.
A young lady with an obsession -- you can guess what it is by the way she dresses: white collarless shirt, a waistcoat and billowing black trousers, the bowler hat.
She's on her way to London, to make her name as a great mime artist. She hopes.
And typical Odeline, she's arriving prepared. With the small inheritance left her by her mother, she's bought herself a home, an old...

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...