Service95 Recommends is the home of the books we love and reviews from our contributors. In Cleaner by Jess Shannon, obsession and desire take over.
What We Say: “Jess Shannon’s Cleaner is a weird gem of a debut novel. Expect sex, love, drugs and a lot of cleaning. A young artist moves back home to live with her parents when she realises her degrees and diplomas are getting her nowhere. Unemployed and directionless, she starts a job as a cleaner for a nude gallery where she meets Isabella, another aspiring artist, and they begin a passionate affair. Touching on themes of loneliness, intimacy, art and isolation, Cleaner is also funny, vibrant and utterly unpredictable.” – Maria Padget
What They Say: “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
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Maria Padget is Book Club Director at Service95
