Book Playlist

La femme de ménage Playlist

by Freida McFacdden

40 tracks
balanced
Nov 11, 2026
2 mixes for this book

This quiet, tense sequence follows Millie into the Winchesters’ polished Long Island home, where restrained piano, uneasy strings, and shadowy electronics make ordinary domestic spaces feel watchful. Its measured shifts from fragile calm to disquiet and menace echo the household’s unstable power dynamics without overwhelming late-night reading.

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Track List

40 songs
1

Light Through The Veins

Jon Hopkins · Insides

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The Mighty Rio Grande

This Will Destroy You · S/T

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3

The Blue Notebooks

Max Richter · The Blue Notebooks (20 Year Edition)

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An Ending (Ascent) - Remastered 2019

Brian Eno · Apollo: Atmospheres And Soundtracks (Extended Edition)

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The Pearl

Harold Budd · Wind In Lonely Fences 1970 - 2011

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Near Light

Ólafur Arnalds · Living Room Songs

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Ab Ovo

Joep Beving · Prehension

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The Blue Hour

Federico Albanese · The Blue Hour

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The Sinking of the Titanic

Gavin Bryars · Bryars: Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet

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Black Refraction

Tim Hecker · Virgins

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The Planets, Op. 32: VII. Neptune, the Mystic

Gustav Holst · Herbert von Karajan conducts Holst

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The How of it Sped

Bing & Ruth · No Home of the Mind

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13

The Firebird Suite: VI. Berceuse (Lullaby)

Igor Stravinsky · Stravinsky: L'oiseau de feu / Le sacre de printemps

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The Planets, Op. 32: III. Mercury, the Winged Messenger

Gustav Holst · Holst: The Planets (Decca - The Collection)

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In a Landscape

John Cage · John Cage: In a Landscape

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The Planets, Op. 32: IV. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity

Gustav Holst · Holst: The Planets

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17

The Ludlows

James Horner · James Horner - Collage: The Last Work

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18

Requiem for the Static King, Pt. 1

A Winged Victory for the Sullen · A Winged Victory for the Sullen

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19

Long: Porcelain

Helen Jane Long · Porcelain

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Kiss The Rain

Yiruma · From The Yellow Room (The Original & the Very First Recording)

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Erupting Light

Hildur Guðnadóttir · Origins

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Anasickmodular

Floating Points · Crush

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23

Burnt

Kiasmos · Kiasmos

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24

Time & Life

Theodore Shapiro · The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Original Motion Picture Score)

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The Aviators

Helen Jane Long · The Aviators

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26

Where Is My Mind

Maxence Cyrin · Novö Piano

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27

The Breach

Alexandra Streliski · Néo-Romance

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28

Briony

Dario Marianelli · Cinéma - Soundtrack Masters

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House of Woodcock

Jonny Greenwood · Phantom Thread (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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30

The Path

Gustavo Santaolalla · The Last of Us

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First Breath After Coma

Explosions In The Sky · The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place

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Untitled #3 - Samskeyti

Sigur Rós · ( )

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33

Love

Mica Levi · Under the Skin

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34

Coast Off

Helios · Eingya

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35

Metamorphosen, TrV 290

Richard Strauss · Metamorphosen

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36

The Haunted Victorian Pencil

A Winged Victory for the Sullen · All Our Friends Are Vampires

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37

Vacuum Boogie

Floating Points · Vacuum Boogie

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38

Journey

Helen Jane Long · Perspective

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39

Matilda

Chad Lawson · Matilda

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Larmes glacées

Maxence Cyrin · Lernen & Konzentration mit klassischer Musik

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