The Cleaner of Chartres, Salley Vickers
The Cleaner of Chartres, Salley Vickers
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The Cleaner of Chartres

Author: Salley Vickers

Narrator: Pamela Garelick

Unabridged: 9 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/27/2013

Synopsis

There is something very special about Agns Morel. A quiet presence in the small French town of Chartres, she can be found cleaning the famed medieval cathedral each morning and doing odd jobs for the townspeople. No one knows where she came from or why. Not Abb Paul, who discovered her one morning twenty years ago, sleeping on the north porch, and not Alain Fleury, the irreverent young restorer who works alongside her each dayand whose attention she catches with her tawny eyes and elusive manner. She has transformed each of their lives in her own subtle way, yet no one suspects the dark secret Agns is hiding. When an accidental encounter dredges up a series of tragic incidents from Agns youth, the nasty meddling of town gossips threatens to upend the womans simple, peaceful life. Her story reveals a terrible loss, a case of mistaken identity, and a cruel and violent act that haunts her past. Agns wrestles with her own sense of guilt and enduring heartbreak while the citizens piece together the truth about her life.

About Salley Vickers

Salley Vickers is the author of the word-of-mouth bestseller Miss Garnet’s Angel and several other bestselling novels, including Mr. Golightly’s Holiday, The Other Side of You, and Dancing Backwards, as well as the collection of short stories Aphrodite’s Hat. She has worked as a cleaner, a dancer, a university teacher of literature, and a psychoanalyst. She is currently a Royal Literary Fund fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge, and divides her time between Cambridge and London.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews on June 27, 2013

This book is beautifully written, has outstanding characters with depth, includes mystery and intrigue, has a plot that will keep you engaged, and a tale you won’t want to end. We all have a past whether sordid or lily white. We either like to keep our past hidden or allow it to be an open book. Agne......more

Goodreads review by Alisha-Dear Constant Reader on May 29, 2013

Thanks for dragging me along through the most boring of stories. I really learned a lot and grew as a person. The Cleaner of Chartres is about the quiet Agnes, found in a basket by a farmer. The slow and overwritten novel jumps from the present to Agnes past where we learn surprisingly little con......more

Goodreads review by Deborah on October 17, 2012

A beautiful moving novel with depth Agnes Morel is an unlikely main character in a novel - quiet unassuming and middle-aged. The beginning of the book is slow with lengthy descriptions of Chartres Cathedral and not much dialogue, so at first I thought I would struggle to make it to the end. But I lov......more

Goodreads review by Teresa on November 14, 2012

Redemption and self-discovery are recurrent themes in Salley Vickers' writing and she tackles the same subjects here in The Cleaner of Chartres. The central hub of the story is the ancient cathedral of Chartres which attracts a wide range of visitors, each one seeking something different to fulfil t......more

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