The Housemaid, Freida McFaddenWelcome 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 Ill 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

'The best historical crime novel I will read this year' - Antonia Senior

the country could be destroyed by civil war

'I LOVED THIS BOOK'

In that last year of her degree the city opens up to her

the saga of the quest to invent the perfect cookie

The people and places in this book will stay with me for a long time

and lighten her hair

which is necessarily drawn from the past

Falling into one amusing misadventure after another

How far would you go for someone you love

to join the CIA

and marrying (once)