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LocationOakland
Call NoF PAG
TitleThe keeper of stories / Sally Page.
AuthorPage, Sally, author.
Barcode528140
CollectionFiction
Summary"She can't recall what started her collection. Maybe it was in a fragment of conversation overheard as she cleaned a sink? Before long (as she dusted a sitting room or defrosted a fridge) she noticed people were telling her their stories. Perhaps they had always done so, but now it is different, now the stories are reaching out to her and she gathers them to her ... Cleaner Janice knows that it is in people's stories that you really get to know them. From recently widowed Fiona and her son Adam to opera-singing Geordie, the quiet bus driver Euan, and the pretentious Mrs. "YeahYeahYeah" and her fox terrier, Decius, Janice has a unique insight into the community around her. When Janice starts cleaning for Mrs. B-a shrewd and prickly woman in her nineties-she finally meets someone who wants to hear her story. But Janice is clear: she is the keeper of stories, she doesn't have a story to tell. At least, not one she can share. Mrs. B is no fool and knows there is more to Janice than meets the eye. What is she hiding? After all, doesn't everyone have a story to tell?"-- Provided by publisher.
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Oakland 528140F PAGFiction Available

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9798212169882 : $25.99
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 823/.92 23/eng/20230125
Personal Name Page, Sally, author.
Title Statement The keeper of stories / Sally Page.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice Ashland, OR : Blackstone Publishing, 2023.
Physical Description 267 p. Hardcover 24 cm
Content Type text rdacontent
Media Type unmediated rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
Summary, Etc. "She can't recall what started her collection. Maybe it was in a fragment of conversation overheard as she cleaned a sink? Before long (as she dusted a sitting room or defrosted a fridge) she noticed people were telling her their stories. Perhaps they had always done so, but now it is different, now the stories are reaching out to her and she gathers them to her ... Cleaner Janice knows that it is in people's stories that you really get to know them. From recently widowed Fiona and her son Adam to opera-singing Geordie, the quiet bus driver Euan, and the pretentious Mrs. "YeahYeahYeah" and her fox terrier, Decius, Janice has a unique insight into the community around her. When Janice starts cleaning for Mrs. B-a shrewd and prickly woman in her nineties-she finally meets someone who wants to hear her story. But Janice is clear: she is the keeper of stories, she doesn't have a story to tell. At least, not one she can share. Mrs. B is no fool and knows there is more to Janice than meets the eye. What is she hiding? After all, doesn't everyone have a story to tell?"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term House cleaning Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Cambridge (England) Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Domestic fiction. lcgft
Index Term-Genre/Form Novels. lcgft