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Dishing the Dirt
- The Hidden Lives of House Cleaners
- Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Sociology
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Summary
Dishing the Dirt tells the real-life story of house cleaners for the first time.
Journalist Nick Duerden spoke to joyful cleaners, slave labourers, women who dust nude for men, gay cleaners, and butlers running the homes of multi-millionaires for this insightful, surprising and gripping non-fiction book.