The Housemaid
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 realize 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 . . .
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Millie is sleeping in her car when Nina Winchester hires her as the live-in housekeeper at the family's Long Island house. Her tiny attic room locks only from the outside, Nina is sweet one minute and cruel the next, and Nina's husband Andrew keeps catching Millie's eye.
Freida McFadden has written four Housemaid novels: The Housemaid, The Housemaid's Secret, The Housemaid Is Watching, and The Housemaid's Wedding. The series continues.
Yes. A film adaptation directed by Paul Feig and starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried was scheduled for late 2025. The film follows the novel's domestic-thriller premise.
The Housemaid was written by Freida McFadden, published in 2022 by Bookouture.
The Housemaid is 336 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Housemaid takes most readers 5 to 7 hours to finish.
The Housemaid is a standalone novel by Freida McFadden, not part of a series.
The Housemaid is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.