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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 to life's electricity anymore as she wanders about her enormous, empty home. Her once-idealistic, handsome husband Alex has metamorphosed ... more
Mrs Murphy Hires a Cleaner - Kath Kincaid ... 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: ... an Indian forced into an arranged marriage) also make unexpected appearances. INTEREST The content of the novel does ... more

 ... include the traditional Chick Lit style story as Emily finds new found confidence, diets, gets new clothes, gets new lovers, starts a business and makes her husband fall in love with her once more. If this had been the sole focus of the book I would have been yawning before the end of the second chapter. However, Kincaid includes numerous other interesting characters and storylines that do incite interest and excitement in the reader and she skilfully interweaves these plots in a believable and uncontrived ...more

Ophelia
Premium Review Mrs Murphy Hires a Cleaner - Kath Kincaid: Dust Free, Guaranteed (923 words)
by Ophelia - written on 27/04/03 (Very useful, 83 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 ...

karenuk
Premium Review The Second Best Book I've Ever Read! (587 words)
by karenuk - written on 25/08/01 (Very useful, 51 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 ...

 

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