Synopsis (taken from Goodreads):
“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 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…
An unbelievably twisty read that will have you glued to the pages late into the night. Anyone who loves The Woman in the Window, The Wife Between Us and The Girl on the Train won’t be able to put this down!
The Housemaid (3/5)
The Housemaid follows Millie, a young woman who has recently gotten out of prison, while she begins a new job as a live-in maid/housekeeper for the wealthy, seemingly perfect, Winchester family.
Shortly after taking the position, Millie learns that the family is nowhere near perfect, particularly Nina, wife of the handsome Andrew Winchester. Soon Millie & Andrew start to get closer and closer, and a secret threatens to ruin everything Millie has worked so hard to build.
I got major deja vu reading this. It was just…ehh. I felt like I had read it before; if you’ve read Behind Closed Doors or The Wife Between Us, you’ll know what I mean.
Oddly enough, I started The Last Mrs. Parrish immediately after finishing this, and I’m only 20% of the way through (according to Goodreads) but I feel certain I know the plot twist after reading The Housemaid righttt before.
The book was fast-paced, captivating from the first page, and I read it in two sittings – I also really liked the ending! Just when I thought it was all over, the author threw us one final curveball.
Read if you liked:
➝ Behind Closed Doors
➝ The Wife Between Us
➝ The Last Mrs Parrish
