My Cleaner
Ugandan Mary Tendo worked for many years in the white middle-class Henman household in London, cleaning for Vanessa and looking after her only child, Justin. More than ten years after Mary has left, Justin - now twenty-two... See More
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by Maggie Gee
(528 reviews)
Quick ViewUgandan Mary Tendo worked for many years in the white middle-class Henman household in London, cleaning for Vanessa and looking after her only child, Justin. More than ten years after Mary has left, Justin - now twenty-two... See More
by Maggie Gee
(21 reviews)
Quick ViewPaula is a victim of mysterious harassment. She lives near the railway line that carries nuclear waste through the heart of London and feels curiously, constantly unwell. Grace, her remarkable eighty-five-year-old aunt... See More
by Maggie Gee
(44 reviews)
Quick ViewChristopher and Alexandra's passion for each other raises eyebrows and invites envy. This beautiful, blinkered couple do the unthinkable and run away from home, abandoning their two teenage children. Their sudden departure... See More
by Maggie Gee
(157 reviews)
Quick ViewWho attacked Dad? When a corrupt, brutal dentist, Albert Ludd, is found battered and bloody after failing to attend a memorial party for his youngest son, suspicion falls on the dentist's other children. Especially on... See More
(5 reviews)
Quick ViewWhat does it mean to 'kiss and part'? This collection of previously unpublished short stories from a stellar list of contemporary women novelists is a literary celebration of the spirit of place. Each contributor shares one... See More
by Maggie Gee
(84 reviews)
Quick ViewWhat if Virginia Woolf came back to life in the twenty-first century?Bestselling author Angela Lamb is going through a mid-life crisis. She dumps her irrepressible daughter Gerda at boarding school and flies to New York to... See More
by Maggie Gee
(6 reviews)
Quick View'... the joy of reading Maggie Gee.' - The Observer The people in The Blue, Maggie Gee's first collection of short stories, try and often fail to understand the world, freeing themselves by small acts of courage, love or... See More
by Maggie Gee
(22 reviews)
Quick ViewLottie Lucas is the luckiest person she knows. She has looks, money, three houses and a teenage son she adores So why is her husband Harold walking out on her? Light Years is also about zoos and the zodiac; the seasons and... See More
by Maggie Gee
(182 reviews)
Quick ViewVanessa Henman, a plucky but accident-prone white writer, flies from London to Uganda for an African writers' conference. She also means to visit her former cleaner, Ugandan Mary Tendo, now the successful Executive... See More
by Maggie Gee
(27 reviews)
Quick ViewHow do you become a writer, and why? Maggie Gee's journey starts a long way from the literary world in a small family in post-war Britain. At seventeen, Maggie goes, a lamb to the slaughter, to university. From the 1960s... See More
by Maggie Gee
(98 reviews)
Quick ViewPresident Bliss is handling a tricky situation with customary brio, but after months of ceaseless rain the city is sinking under the floods. The rich are safe on high ground, but the poor are getting damper in their packed... See More
by Maggie Gee
(79 reviews)
Quick ViewAlfred White, a London park keeper, rules his home with a mixture of rigidity and tenderness that has estranged his three children. For years, Alfred's daughter Shirley and her black partner Elroy have avoided her comically... See More
by Maggie Gee
(28 reviews)
Quick ViewIt's the 2030s in Ramsgate and four people who don't look quite human are found sitting, naked, in the early spring sunlight on the quay of the quiet south coast resort. The locals are puzzled - the newcomers are larger and... See More
by Maggie Gee
(159 reviews)
Quick ViewIt's the middle of the twenty-first century, and the next Ice Age has suddenly sent global warming into reverse. Saul is one of the Ice People, the threatened peoples of the northern hemisphere, who, watching their world... See More
by Maggie Gee
(3 reviews)
Quick ViewWhatever happened to British protest?For a nation that brought the world Chartism, the Suffragettes, the Tolpuddle Martyrs, and so many other grassroots social movements, Britain rarely celebrates its long, great tradition... See More
by 2015 Creative Future Writers' Award Winners
Quick View"To wrap this anthology up in a nice, pretty bow would be impossible; the nature of an anthology is such that there's something in it for everyone, and this anthology is no exception." SABOTAGE REVIEWS The 2015 Creative... See More