Great news: Mary Watson’s new novel, The Cleaner, will be published in January 2025!
The synopsis states: “Treading silently over the polished wooden floorboards and cloud-soft carpets, Esmie gathers up the mess of broken marriages, quiet deceptions and careless failures. She tucks away their fragments, keeping them safe. For now. Because one of the residents took from her the person she loves most. She’s not here to clean; she’s here for revenge. And she’ll get it using the weapons her employers unwittingly handed her along with the keys to their homes: their own secrets.”
Watson said: “I was captured by the idea of a cleaner who moves quietly between a few houses, seeing the things people hide from each other – but with a twist.”
Read the entire announcement here: The Bookseller
Philida Literary Award 