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)
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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 is a moving, funny, engrossing book.The Observer
Elegant, humorous and surprising, this is a classy performance.The Times
Beautifully observed, intelligent and moving.The Scotsman
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, Justinnow twenty-two, handsome, and giftedis too depressed to get out of bed. To his mothers surprise, he asks for Mary.
When Mary responds to Vanessas cry for help and returns from Uganda to look after Justin, the balance of power in the house shifts dramatically. Both womens lives change irrevocably as tensions build toward a startling climax on a snowbound motorway.
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