Margate Bookshop Bookclub

28th May 2025

Fort Road Hotel Bar

Discussing Clean by Alia Trabucco Zeran at Fort Road Hotel Bar

6.30pm

Chills, thrills and unscrubbable spills abound in this propulsive study of domestic work, power and violence from Chilean author Zeran and translator Sophie Hughes, a novel propped against the erratic scenery of Chile's changing political landscape.

A girl has died, and Estela, the maid to a wealthy family who tells her story from inside a locked prison cell, knows what happened. As Estela relays the facts of her daily existence, the loneliness, the limitations, the feeling like a 'lesser than', we learn how her seemingly simple life has become so knotted, and the sequence of events that led to her present moment...

Clean is available to buy from The Margate Bookshop with a 10% discount.

The Bookclub is open to all and there’s no requirement to read every book and turn up to every meeting, come whenever you fancy!

The wonderful Fort Road Hotel hosting the meet-ups in their basement bar with a delicious selection of drinks and snacks.

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