The housemaid
McFadden, Freida2025
Book
"Welcome to the family," Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I'll soon learn that the Winchesters' secrets are far more dangerous than my own... Every day I clean the Winchesters' beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor. I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew's handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it's hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina's life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband. I only try on one of Nina's pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it's like. But she soon finds out... and by the time I realise my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it's far too late. But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don't know who I really am. They don't know what I'm capable of...
Main title:
The housemaid / Freida McFadden.
Author:
McFadden, Freida, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Bookouture, 2025.©2022
Collation:
328 pages ; 20 cm
Series title:
Housemaid series ; 1.
Notes:
"Now a major motion picture"--Cover.First published: 2022.
ISBN:
9780349132884 (paperback)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
491667