ARGONAUT BOOKS

Remarkable in scope and detail, this impressive evocation of the tough world that produced Chaplin is fascinating and often profoundly movingMike LeighAn enthralling journey through some of London's hardest streets, in the company of a writer of integrity and passionLucy WorsleyThrough her painstaking research, Jacqueline Riding has reconstructed a thoroughly engrossing and visceral picture of 'how the other half lived' in Victorian London. The dirty, vibrant streets of Charlie Chaplin's childhood, the struggles of its inhabitants caught in the twisted web of work and poverty, addiction and te...Read More