![]() ![]() She’s a single mother who gets no assistance from the boy’s father or her mother who rejected her. The Housekeeper has worked diligently her whole life because she needs to make ends meet. ![]() I really appreciate fiction which sensitively depicts working class life. In turn, the Housekeeper develops a deeper engagement/relationship with other people and the world around her. He gives this mother and son an appreciation for the beauty of mathematics. As such he wears a suit every day which is covered in notes to remind him about his condition and who the Housekeeper and her son are. This developed after he received a head injury in a car accident at the age of forty seven. He is an ingenious mathematician but suffers from an illness where he loses all recent memory every eighty minutes. She and her son (who the Professor dubs Root because his head is shaped like the square root symbol) develop a close bond with the Professor. Narrated from the point of view of a single mother and professional cleaner, the Housekeeper tells her story of working for a man she only refers to as the Professor. However, it has a meaning which subtly builds over the course of the story. ![]() ‘The Housekeeper and the Professor’ has an easily digestible style of writing and structure. During the long flight from London to Tokyo, I was grateful to have a novel that was fairly simply written but emotionally engaging. ![]()
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