Clean Houses

<p><b>THE SPANISH LANGUAGE SENSATION - NOW AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH<br></b><br><b>'Reflects on what we truly think (but almost never say) about domestic labour'</b> <i>Vogue</i> <br><b>'A witty and unflinchingly honest novel on domestic work, motherhood, and class. Painfully relatable and enjoyable to read' </b><i>Roxy Dunn, author of As Young as This<br><b>'</b></i><b>Makes you laugh and feel uncomfortable in equal measure' </b><i>Telva<br></i><br>Sol has always known she has little in common with the woman she hires to clean her apartment. Sol is progressive - a feminist - and she would never dream of treating the housekeepers as cruelly as her grandmother, or as dismissively as her mother. But all the same; Sol doesn't relate to these women, and she doesn't like the conflicted feelings they bring up in her.<br><br>So when Sol and her boyfriend find out they are expecting a baby, having one more cleaner to help around the house seems to make sense. But it isn't long before Sol starts to find their presence - and her own privilege - uncomfortable. Caught between needing the cleaners' help and wishing they didn't exist, Sol feels compelled to chase a respectable, creative career; the kind her family have always thought her deserving of. <br><br>But secretly, what Sol really thrives at is cleaning. And what she doesn't want everyone to know is: she has started to clean other people's houses herself . . . <br><br><b>Told in an unfiltered, hypnotic voice, <i>Clean Houses </i>is a sharply funny and uproarious take on privilege, class and the hypocrisies of modern domestic labour.<br></b><br><b>'Peers into what almost no one wants to see, portraying with perverse humour what nobody wants to do' </b><i>El Periódico<br></i><br><b>'Portrays, with corrosive humour and sharp social critique, the invisible work of those who clean and care in our homes' </b><i>Informativos TVE</i><br><br><b>'An uncomfortable novel - but in the best sense of the word. It forces the reader to look into a mirror they'd rather avoid' </b><i>La Voz de Galicia<br></i><br><b>'Suffused with sharpness and a dose of humour . . . Like a sociological study in a literary key; a lens that focuses on the contradictions of being a woman' </b><i>Euronews<br></i><br><b>'A fresh, refreshingly honest voice that drew several wicked laughs from me'</b><i>Julia Viejo</i></p>