With “The Housekeeper”, published in October 2023 by J’ai Lu (after an initial publication by City), the novelist Freida McFadden had a great summer in France, where the book peaked at the top of the sales charts. However, she was not at all predestined to be a novelist.
It’s one of the literary hits this summer. Released almost a year ago by J’ai Lu, the psychological thriller by American author Freida McFadden, The Housekeeper, is in very good shape. In this novel, she tells the story of Millie, a young au pair and domestic worker for a wealthy New York family, who will discover that her employers are not as smooth as they would have us believe…
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Freida McFadden almost never published a book
With several books already to her credit (including two sequels to The Housekeeper), Freida Mc Fadden is a prolific author. However, this American living in Boston has had a rather atypical career as a writer, she who is basically a renowned scientist, a specialist in brain disorders. She was not at all destined to start writing novels, as she explained in 2023 to the American site Shereads: “I never really wanted to be an author. It’s just one of those things that had to happen. Writing has always been a hobby for me – I took all the writing classes I could in school, but I never really considered it as a potential career. But at the same time, as far back as…
- Femina.fr
