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"There's a timelessness about The Cleaner of Chartres...Vickers draws on an intimate understanding of human behavior."--The Bookseller
"Vickers has taken myth, religion, and secular humanism, and turned them into substantial life-affirming fiction." --The Philadelphia Inquirer
"A heartbreaking novel and, yes, a love story. If you enjoy the work of Marilynne Robinson, Penelope Fitzgerald, James Salter, or Anita Brookner, you should be reading Vickers."--The Washington Post Book World
"A smart, haunting exploration of love and loss."--The New York Observer
"A former psychologist herself, Vickers brings an erudite precision and an elegant perception to her lyrically poetic testament to the vitality of love and the human capacity to both seek out and run from its ennobling grace."--Booklist
"Entertains even as it considers serious questions of sin and redemption, love and loss, what we venture in this life and the reckonings we may face in the great beyond." --Francine Prose, People
"A book to place on the shelf next to Marilynne Robinson's haunting Housekeeping and Penelope Fitzgerald's serene The Blue Flower....Harold Bloom once observed that a sense of strangeness in a work of art was one likely sign of greatness. Instances of the Number 3 possesses such an utterly assured, if quiet originality." --Michael Dirda, Crisis
"A testament to the craftiness and generosity of spirit of the author, whom one hopes to hear from much more." --The Seattle Times
"Salley Vickers has a gift for making the most unlikely settings for fiction absolutely compelling....She is a brave writer....Fresh, intriguing, and enlightening." --The Independent(London)
'Subtle and ultimately joyous. A contemporary moral and psychological drama every bit as absorbing as Miss Garnet's Angel' Sunday Times
A compelling story of darkness and light, of traumatic loss and second chances, The Cleaner of Chartres tells of the mysterious and elusive Agnes Morel whose little acts of kindness around a rural French cathedral touch the lives of others with consequences both good and ill. But when her tragic past is exposed, Agnes must face up to the truth of her origins.
'Vickers sees with a clear eye and writes with a light hand and she knows how the world works. She's a presence worth cherishing' Philip Pullman
'With its explorations of faith and love, The Cleaner of Chartres is a return to the terrain of Miss Garnet's Angel. Certainly, it's another gem' Independent
'Wise, deeply compassionate and gently mystical. A lovely, grace-filled book. An enchanting read with flashes of wit, a cast of absorbing characters and a heroine whose fight to overcome the flaws in her life is marked by a quiet, very moving courage' Metro
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