A psychological thriller that gripped the world a couple of years ago, the bestselling novel The Housemaid is getting the Hollywood treatment and is being adapted for the screen. Written by Freida McFadden, the novel is a fast-paced story with twists, turns and whole lot of mystery, and has won multiple literature awards as well as becoming a viral sensation on TikTok’s #BookTok and selling millions of copies since its publication.

Steered by Bridesmaids and A Simple Favour director Paul Feig, The Housemaid will star Sydney Sweeney as Millie and Amanda Seyfried as her employer Nina. A struggling Millie is relieved to be offered a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Winchester family. But behind their pristine exterior all is not what it seems and Millie soon learns that the Winchesters’ secrets are far more dangerous than her own.

“Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom… 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,” reads the book’s synopsis.

“It’s always been my dream to see my book on the big screen”: Freida McFadden on her bestselling novel The Housemaid