Reviewed by Catherine NixeyCHATTO & WINDUS, 272pp, £14.99Tablet bookshop price £13.50             Tel 01420 592974In 1942 Charlie Chaplin suffered what his biographer Peter Ackroyd calls “one of [his] worst domestic disasters”. It is a mark of what a zesty personal life Chaplin led that what follows (an old lover staked out his house, crashed her car in his driveway and forced him to sleep with her at gunpoint before trying to commit suicide with an ashtray) leaves the reader wondering whether this was, really, in the grand scheme of things, all that bad.This was, after all, a man who became infamous as a seducer of underaged women (his wife Lita was said to be the inspiration for Nabokov’s Lolit