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The Cleaner
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  • Published: 30 January 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529945027
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $38.00
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The Cleaner

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Paperback
13 Jan 2026
EBook
30 Jan 2025
Audiobook
30 Jan 2025
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A beautifully sinister, propulsive page-turning adult debut that explores themes of obsession, identity and privilege, about a woman who takes a job as a cleaner – but what she’s really after is revenge…

She’s here to clean your house.
She’s here to get revenge . . .

Esmie is meant to be invisible. Just a cleaner with a foreign accent that no one quite has time to place, and a uniform of leggings and a duster that allows her to explore the homes of the wealthy Woodlands gated community, unnoticed.

Which is exactly what she wants. Because Esmie isn’t really a cleaner.

One of the residents of Woodlands has ruined her life. And when she finds out who, she’s going to make them pay . . .

This beautifully sinister, propulsive page-turner that explores themes of identity and privilege is perfect for fans of Harriet Tyce and Lisa Jewell.
  • Published: 30 January 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529945027
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $38.00
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About the author

Mary Watson

Mary Watson is from South Africa and now lives on the west coast of Ireland. She has a PhD from the University of Cape Town, where she taught for many years. She won the Caine Prize for African Writing for her adult publishing in South Africa, and in 2014 was named on the Africa39 list of writers under 40 with the potential to define trends in African literature. Her YA novels have been nominated for the Irish Book Awards and the Carnegie medal. Her adult debut, The Cleaner, was an instant Irish Times bestseller.
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