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Original Title:	Mr. Chartwell
ISBN:	1400069408 (ISBN13: 9781400069408)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Esther Hammerhans, Winston Churchill
Literary Awards:	Guardian First Book Award Nominee for Longlist (2010)

Mr. Chartwell Hardcover | Pages: 242 pages

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Title	:	Mr. Chartwell
Author	:	Rebecca Hunt
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 242 pages
Published	:	February 8th 2011 by The Dial Press (first published January 1st 2010)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fantasy. European Literature. British Literature. Magical Realism

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July 1964. Chartwell House, Kent: Winston Churchill wakes at dawn. There’s a dark, mute “presence” in the room that focuses on him with rapt concentration.

It’s Mr. Chartwell.

Soon after, in London, Esther Hammerhans, a librarian at the House of Commons, goes to answer the door to her new lodger. Through the glass she sees a vast silhouette the size of a mattress.

It’s Mr. Chartwell.

Charismatic, dangerously seductive, Mr. Chartwell unites the eminent statesman at the end of his career and the vulnerable young woman. But can they withstand Mr. Chartwell’s strange, powerful charms and his stranglehold on their lives? Can they even explain who or what he is and why he has come to visit?

In this utterly original, moving, funny, and exuberant novel, Rebecca Hunt explores how two unlikely lives collide as Mr. Chartwell’s motives are revealed to be far darker and deeper than they at first seem.

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Winston Churchill famously described his depression as a Black Dog; the premise of Rebecca Hunts first novel is that there really was a black dog Black Pat Chartwell, a six-foot-seven talking dog who walks on his hind legs. The events of Mr Chartwell take place in July 1964, in the week running up to Churchills retirement from Westminster (and scant months before his death). Black Pat becomes a lodger in the home of Esther Hammerhans, a clerk in the House of Commons library. Just as Churchill



Five Things About Mr. Charwell:1. If I tell you this is a book about depression, you wont want to read it. At least, I wouldnt want to read it. Depression is real, yes, but depression also tends to be static; it clogs and slows and dilutes its victim. Which makes for boring fiction. So I wont tell you that this book is about depression (because its not very true, anyway). I will instead tell you that this book is about Winston Churchill, which also isnt tremendously true. Winston Churchill

Allegorical fantasy told with dark humor and containing a sharp golden heart. Parliamentary librarian, Esther Hammerhans, put an ad in the newspaper for a renter. She wanted company, someone to help divert her attention from the looming date of her husbands suicide two years before. What she got was a massive black dog that calls himself Mr. Chartwell. He has business in the city and needs a room to be close to his clientWinston Churchill. Black Pat also has business with Esther, but she does

Mr Chartwell centres around a single idea, though it's admittedly quite a striking one: based on Winston Churchill's famous description of his depression as 'the black dog', it imagines the physical incarnation of depression as an actual, huge, walking (occasionally on hind legs) and talking, black dog, the Mr Chartwell of the title. We see how the presence of the dog - Black Pat, as he decides to call himself - affects two characters; Churchill himself, facing the official end of his

A lot of critics on here seem to have assessed this book as if it were a self-help guide to depression, or even a realist novel ('how come other people can't see the dog?' etc). It's much cleverer than that, though it does have a lot of first-time novelist faults about it, not least some clunky use of background detail and some some rather 'chick fic' dialogue. It's also a fusion of Judith Kerr's 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea', Anthony Minghella's 'Truly, Madly, Deeply' (the new boyfriend is very

To paraphrase Elvis Presley, depression aint nothing but a hound dog. In an audacious conceit, Ms. Hunt imagines the depression that hounded Winston Churchill his entire life as exactly that unmistakably a dog, a mammoth muscular dog about six foot seven high whose short black fur is dense and water-resistant, his broad face split by a vulgar mouth. This mesmerizing dogs day job is the consistent persecution of Winston Churchill, who, at 89 years old, is on the cusp of retiring from his