Thanks to Rebecca Lang of Viking and Penguin Books Publicity, I am giving away one print copy of The Cleaner of Chartres.
Book Description:
There is something very special about Agnès 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 Abbé 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 day and 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 Agnès is hiding.
When an accidental encounter dredges up a series of tragic incidents from Agnès youth, the nasty meddling of town gossips threatens to upend the woman’s simple, peaceful life. Her story reveals a terrible loss, a case of mistaken identity, and a cruel and violent act that haunts her past. Agnès wrestles with her own sense of guilt and enduring heartbreak while the citizens piece together the truth about her life.
About Salley Vickers:
ALLEY VICKERS is a former university professor of literature and Jungian psychotherapist. Vickers’s first novel, Miss Garnet’s Angel, was a book club favorite and an international bestseller. She lives in London and is currently royal literary fund fellow of Newnham College , Cambridge , UK .
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Thanks for the giveaway!
Sounds like an interesting book
Thanks for this great and fascinating novel. saubleb(at)gmail(dot)com
I’ve been reading great things about this book and Chartres certainly has it’s own interesting history too. Thanks for the chance to win!
Love books set in France. Thank you. jtretin at aol dot com
I’d love to know her secret. Thanks for the chance to win.
The secret from Agnes’ past sounds very intriguing. Thanks for the giveaway.
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have been eyeing this one for a while, would love to win it. thanks for the giveaway!
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Thank you for the giveaway! This sounds good!
Looks very interesting.
The atmosphere of this novel sounds very intriguing. Would love to read it!
Not a lot of info on the storyline but enough to get me interested. Thanks.
Sounds interesting. I love the setting for this book, and would love to know what dark secret Agnes is keeping. Thanks for having the giveaway.
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This sounds like an amazing book. Really caught my attention and want to read it now!