The Cleaner of Chartres
The Cleaner of Chartres The prosaic title of Salley Vickers’s new novel, The Cleaner of Chartres, belies the subtle complexities of her story. On a literal level, illiterate Agnes Morel is a simple, thirty-five-year-old cleaning lady who “mopped, dusted and polished her way round the cathedral.” Abandoned at birth, found in a basket, and then […]