My Cleaner
by
Maggie Gee
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1846590086
ISBN-13
9781846590085
Publisher
Saqi Books
Imprint
Telegram Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 18th, 2006
Print length
352 Pages
Weight
302 grams
Dimensions
20.10 x 13.10 x 2.50 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
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Ugandan Mary Tendo worked for many years in the white middle-class Henman household in London, cleaning for Vanessa and looking after her only child, Justin. More than ten years after Mary has left, Justin is too depressed to get out of bed. To his mother's surprise, he asks for Mary. This work confronts racism and class conflict with humour.
My cleaner. She does my dirty work. She knows more about me than anyone else in the world. But does she, in fact, like me? Does her presence fill me with shame? Ugandan Mary Tendo worked for many years in the white middle-class Henman household in London, cleaning for Vanessa and looking after her only child, Justin. More than ten years after Mary has left, Justin - now twenty-two, handsome and gifted - is too depressed to get out of bed. To his mother''s surprise, he asks for Mary. When Mary responds to Vanessa''s cry for help and returns from Uganda to look after Justin, the balance of power in the house shifts dramatically. Both women''s lives change irrevocably as tensions build towards a startling climax on a snowbound motorway. Maggie Gee confronts racism and class conflict with humour and tenderness in this moving, funny, engrossing read.
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