Cleaner

Author: Jess Shannon

Genre: Literary Fiction

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.

Touching on themes of loneliness, intimacy, art and isolation, Cleaner is also funny, vibrant and utterly unpredictable
- Service95, Dua Lipa’s Book Club Platform

Its magnetism and effortless backflips reminded me a lot of Raven Leilani’s Luster, like reading a painting. She’s an incredible talent
- Julia Raeside, author of Don’t Make Me Laugh

Shannon’s debut is a tremendous display of talent. Contemporary in its composition and fearless to experiment, the book elegantly makes bold thematic suggestions which avoid heavy-handedness
- Gonzalo Ceron Garcia, author of We Are The End

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