Rebecca Hunt

Mr. Chartwell

238 pages

"It’s July, 1964. In Kent, Winston Churchill is waking up. There’s a visitor in the room, someone he hasn’t seen for a while, watching him with tortured concentration. It’s Mr Chartwell. In Battersea, Esther Hammerhans, young, vulnerable and alone, 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. Mr Chartwell is charismatic and dangerously seductive, and Esther and Churchill are drawn together by his dark influence.