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==Fictional residents== {{more citations needed|section|date=March 2018}} * [[Sâr Dubnotal]] (1909–1910) owned a house in Cheyne Walk. * [[Carnacki|Thomas Carnacki]] (1910–1912), a fictional occult detective created by English fantasy writer [[William Hope Hodgson]], lived in a flat at 472 Cheyne Walk. * Katharine Hilbery, the protagonist of [[Virginia Woolf]]'s second novel, ''[[Night and Day (Woolf novel)|Night and Day]]'' (1919), lives on Cheyne Walk with her parents. * In [[Nancy Mitford]]'s novel ''[[The Pursuit of Love]]'', (1945) the heroine Linda Radlett lives in a house on Cheyne Walk before and during the Second World War. * The climax of ''[[The French Lieutenant's Woman]]'' (1969) by [[John Fowles]] is set at number 16, in the Rossetti household. * In [[Iris Murdoch]]'s ''[[A Word Child]]'' (1975), Gunnar Jopling and his second wife, Lady Kitty, lived here. * In [[Roald Dahl]]'s ''[[My Uncle Oswald]]'' (1979), the protagonist lives with his parents in Cheyne Walk at the start of the story. * In [[Jeffrey Archer]]'s 1984 British political novel ''[[First Among Equals (novel)|First Among Equals]]'', the MP Andrew Fraser lived in Cheyne Walk. * Margaret Prior, the protagonist of [[Sarah Waters]]' ''[[Affinity (novel)|Affinity]]'' (1999), lives on Cheyne Walk. * [[Richard Bolitho]]'s mistress Lady Catherine Somervell kept a house on Cheyne Walk as mentioned in [[Douglas Reeman|Alexander Kent]]'s novel, ''The Darkening Sea'' (1993). * In [[Timothy Findley]]'s ''[[Pilgrim (Timothy Findley novel)|Pilgrim]]'' (2000), the [[eponymous]] main character is a former resident of Cheyne Walk. * In ''[[Stormbreaker (novel)|Stormbreaker]]'' (2000), [[Alex Rider]] directs his cab to his home in Cheyne Walk, London. * In [[Daniel Silva (novelist)|Daniel Silva]]'s ''[[The Defector (Daniel Silva novel)|The Defector]]'' (2009), the Russian billionaire Viktor Orlov lives at number 43. * In [[Cassandra Clare]]'s ''[[The Infernal Devices]]'' series, werewolf Woolsey Scott lives at No. 16. * In [[Elizabeth George]]'s [[Inspector Lynley]] series, Simon and Deborah St James live and work on Cheyne Walk. * [[Sean Dillon (Jack Higgins character)|Sean Dillon]], a recurring character from author [[Jack Higgins]], has a home in Cheyne Walk. * Lady Celia Lytton and members of her family live in a house on Cheyne Walk for more than half a century in [[Penny Vincenzi]]'s trilogy, ''The Spoils of Time''. * In [[Lisa Jewell]]'s ''The Family Upstairs'', the plot centres around a baby found alongside three dead bodies in 16 Cheyne Walk, and the mystery of what happened to the other inhabitants of the house. * [[Penny Widmore|Penelope Widmore]]'s street address on the television show ''[[Lost (2004 TV series)|Lost]]'', in the year 1996, was 423 Cheyne Walk. * The main characters of [[Mariana Enríquez]]'s novel ''Our share of night'', Juan and Rosario, live for a while on Cheyne Walk (number unspecified), while Juan's physician and bodyguards live at number 4.
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