The Housemaid Author Frieda McFadden Reveals True Identity & Day Job As Brain Doctor

After achieving great success with her thriller novel and the recent film adaptation, McFadden has shared that she is also a doctor specializing in brain health. Her 2022 novel quickly became a bestseller, and the movie version, starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried, was a hit in theaters in 2025. The film, titled The Housemaid, proved to be a major success at the box office.

The Testaments Timeline: How Long After The Handmaid’s Tale, Agnes’ Age & Identity Explained

A major change in the TV adaptation involves the story’s timeline. The book jumps between multiple timelines and follows three main characters – Aunt Lydia, Agnes, and Daisy – with a significant time gap before Daisy’s story begins, as Agnes is already grown up. The Hulu series simplifies this by keeping the characters roughly the same age and unfolding their stories together, rather than separately. This isn’t the only adjustment to the timeline, however.

Morgan Stanley Bitcoin ETF Debut: A Bank’s Grand, Silly Gambit

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Thus the empire of ledgers swells again, as Morgan Stanley, that venerable craftsman of a thousand forms, steps into the place where Bitcoin, that capricious sprite, lives among the price boards and the clerks’ whispers. The new Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust, ticker MSBT, did on its opening day what a thoroughgoing clerk might call “an respectable performance”: about $32 million slipped into its coffers, and more than 1.6 million shares danced across the NYSE Arca floor, as if the market were hosting a modest turn about the ballroom.