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Cleaner - A razor-sharp honest and darkly comedic literary debut novel - cover

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Cleaner - A razor-sharp honest and darkly comedic literary debut novel

Jess Shannon

Publisher: Bedford Square Publishers

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Summary

'Mrs. Hinch meets Raven Leilani's Luster' Elle
'Gen Z's Lady Macbeth' Times Literary Supplement
'Gem of a debut novel... funny, vibrant and utterly unpredictable.' Service95 (Dua Lipa's cultural concierge), August's Best New Releases
'Sharp, funny and engaging' Daily Mail
A LOVE READING DEBUT OF THE MONTH, STAR BOOK AND BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK
A woman in her mid-twenties moves back home to live with her parents, where her listlessness fuels an obsession with cleaning, and sets in motion a series of events that lead to her posing as a model in a nude gallery where she encounters a woman whose life will intertwine with her own.
'An utterly unflinching debut novel about becoming adrift: a rare and profound book about loneliness, self-expression and disillusionment, featuring sex, love, drugs – and cleaning' Ian Sansom
'A tremendous display of talent' Gonzalo Ceron Garcia, author of We Are The End
Available since: 08/28/2025.
Print length: 240 pages.

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