Read by Bernadette Dunne

Blending bittersweet humor and defiant originality, this stunning debut about a woman rediscovering herself after a divorce explores the heartbreaking and sometimes funny aspects of the mess called love. Barb Barrett has inadequate skills for relationships. In particular, she cannot follow her husband's instructions. Because of this character "flaw," she falls through the safety net of her lousy marriage, losing custody of her children and her home as she plummets. Guided only by her intense inner life, and a questionable business plan, Barb is determined to reinvent herself. She moves into a house once occupied by the literary genius Vladimir Nabokov, author of the notorious Lolita. She discovers what could be Nabokov's last unpublished manuscript and from there begins a painful yet joyous journey that is deliciously romantic, both darkly comic and wise. Introducing a dazzling new voice in fiction, Cleaning Nabokov's House will enchant women's fiction lovers with an accessible and engaging voice they will come to cherish. Title Info. Dedication. The Blue Pot Camping Onkwedo House Mail Darcy Book Typing Lawyer Agent Nest Breakfast Cream Onkwedo Elementary Lunch Inspection Two Things Good Times Pants Authentic Last Visit Dog The Blue Door Template Happy Hour Paint Rudy Again Bistro Moutarde Pencil Skirt Crowbar Lodge Ikea End of the Year Opening Day The Change Bank and Laundry Mature Romance Date Underpants Arrive Weekend Steady Employment Lemonade Wedding Plans Butter Dead Car On the Lake Wedding First Copy Bookstore The Day After Birthday John at Work Girl Conference Hotel Ringer Science Chambers Ivy League Goodbye, Cathouse More Mail Cherry Vanilla Ice Cream Pastry Autumn Full Term Onkwedo "Cleaning Nabokov's House is original and compelling, the sort of book that keeps a reader on her toes-wildly funny one minute and profoundly sober the next. The protagonist is delightful, the plot a marvelous weave of sex, food, money, and motherhood. Every page a joy." "The pleasures of the novel unfold in a series of tantalizing, laugh-out-loud twists. The portrayals are as heartrending as the writing is dead-on funny, and the storytelling is both quirky and captivating. I was swept along like a trout in a clear stream. Bravo." "In spite of its odd title, this is a wonderfully original, charming, and funny novel about what to do when your world has turned upside down, and how to get through a long cold rural winter by opening a house of ill repute." "In Barbara, Leslie Daniels has created a character to root for." "Daniels accesses some new territory while still giving readers what they want when they want in a light, semi-literary romantic comedy…Authentic, often devastating depictions of a mother missing her children…raise this book above the rest." "Vladimir Nabokov, a small town's sex trade, and a mother's fight to win back her children don't often have much to do with one another. But in Cleaning Nabokov's House they do-and brilliantly so. There is not a false note or flat phrase anywhere in this surprising, moving, sexy, and very, very funny book. Leslie Daniels has written one of those rare tales that makes you wish you could meet all of the characters for tea-and makes you regret that they exist only in the author's imagination. But what an extraordinary imagination it is." "Literature and Letters meet the oldest profession at the hand of one of the most hysterical narrators to come along in ages. Cleaning Nabokov's House is an epic comedy told in an epic new voice." "Daniels is warmly funny and audacious in this shrewd and saucy mix of family drama, gender discord, sexual healing, and high literature; a raucous yet sensitive tale of one quirky woman's struggle to overcome the lowest of low self-esteem to get motherhood and love right." "Daniels writes her story

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