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How long does it take to read The Housemaid?

Freida McFadden

The Housemaid by Freida McFadden takes about 6 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 1 of Housemaid series

Next: The Housemaid's Secret

About 6 hours 10 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2022. 336 pages, about 92,400 words.

13 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 10 hours 16 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours 10 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 51 minutes

The page count is the median across 17 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

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 . . .

Content warnings (AI-checked, may be incomplete)
  • violence
  • sexual content
  • abuse

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Subjects: Thriller, Mystery, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Crime

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