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Mrs Murphy Hires a Cleaner - Kath Kincaid

 
Description: Author: Kath Kincaid / Genre: Fiction / Emily Murphy wonders if she's lost her plug. She doesn't seem to be connected ... more
Mrs Murphy Hires a Cleaner - Kath Kincaid ... to life's electricity anymore as she wanders about her enormous, empty home. Her once-idealistic, handsome husband Alex has metamorphosed into a hard, ruthless, work-obsessed capitalist, the children are long since gone and so are her looks. Until she hires a cleaner. A book with lots of laughs.

Newest Review: ... are. In two council houses knocked together lives, granddad Jim, dad Eddie, Mae, her children, Alice, Shona, Dicky and Craig, ... more

 ... and her granddaughter Cloud. That's a mouthful in itself when we meet all the characters pretty much at the beginning of the book. Mae is branded common and cheap as she has four children by four different dads. She comes across as the kindest woman you will ever meet and she appears hard working, having about four different jobs which take up all of the seven days in a week. Mae and Emily meet when Emily advertises for a cleaner. Emily at this point in the book is very depressed and Mae seems to bring a spark bac...more

Price Comparison for Mrs Murphy Hires a Cleaner - Kath Kincaid

Mrs Murphy Hires a Cleaner
Pages: 298, Hardcover, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Last Update 12.11.2009 05:42
£ 17.99


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Mrs Murphy Hires a Cleaner
Pages: 320, Edition: New edition, Paperback, Coronet Books
Last Update 12.11.2009 05:42
£ 0.01


Mrs.Murphy Hires a Cleaner: Complete &Unabridged
Audio Cassette, Chivers Audio Books
Last Update 12.11.2009 05:42
£ 19.99


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Premium Review Mrs Murphy Hires a Cleaner - Kath Kincaid: It'll clean up (627 words)
by - written on 21/12/08 (Very useful, 111 readings)
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My latest offering from the library was Mrs Murphy Hires a Cleaner. I picked this book off the shelf because the cover shouted out a glammed up cleaner looking very out of place. At the time it made me chuckle to myself so I had to loan the book to find out what it was all about. I had never heard of the author Kath Kincaid before reading this book, but I find she has a very easy to read writing style which will make me look for more books by her in the future. The book is centred on two families, the Murphy's and the McNulty's. Alex and Emily Murphy live in a large country house. Alex is a successful businessman who neglects his wife and Emily is a bored ...  Read the complete review

Ophelia
Premium Review Dust Free, Guaranteed (923 words)
by - written on 27/04/03 (Very useful, 86 readings)
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When Karen (karenuk) lent me what appeared to be a classic Chick Lit book (brightly coloured cover with an illustration clearly drawn by someone who had never read the book), my heart sank. I am not a huge fan of the genre but I lay my prejudices aside and started the novel. A pleasant surprise lay in store. THE PLOT The central story revolves around Emily Murphy, a tired, dowdy, middle-aged housewife who is bored with life and whose husband has grown apart from her. One day she hires a cleaner (you didn?t see that coming, did you!) called Mae McNulty. Mae is everything that Emily is not: vivacious and attractive with a very full life ...  Read the complete review

karenuk
Premium Review Mrs Murphy Hires a Cleaner - Kath Kincaid: The Second Best Book I've Ever Read! (587 words)
by - written on 25/08/01 (Very useful, 54 readings)
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This is probably the second best book I’ve ever read, which is high praise indeed, as I am a self-confessed bookworm and live on a staple diet of modern fiction, with a spoonful of biography and a pinch of historical romance. (Incidentally, the best book I’ve ever read is Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon.) So how did I stumble across this wonderful novel? Well, my mum-in-law loves books too, but doesn’t often recommend them, knowing I already have a bookshelf stacked with a very high ‘to be read’ pile. But she recommended this one. So I knew it must be something special. It is. It’s hard to capture the essence of this ...  Read the complete review

 

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