The Housemaid
“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….
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Jenn Thornley –
FROM THE BOOK CLUB MEETING:
A real mixed reception for this month’s book, with about half our members really enjoying it, and the other half really not. Those who liked it found it to be an easy, binge-read that didn’t require much thought. The story kept our interest and the plot twists kept us guessing. Whilst we weren’t compelled to read the sequels, we would recommend the book to others. Those who didn’t enjoy the book found it a bit sinister with unnecessary violence. The characters were not likeable with very few redeemable characteristics between them and they found the plot quite predictable.
Overall this book averaged 3.37*