Description
'Trad Wife is terrifying . . . a surreal and slick feminist feast'
- Sarah Pinborough, bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes
Your favourite influencer is about to be exposed . . .
. . . for fans of a much darker, more horrifying Yesteryear
Every day, millions watch Mia Wright, the "trad wife" queen, on her idyllic 300-acre farm. With her handsome husband, seven perfect children, and a life of from-scratch meals, she's an icon of modern femininity. But behind every perfect image is a lie.
Desperate to save her tarnished career, journalist Jenny Kaplan arrives at Black Swan Farm to profile Mia. Jenny is ready to write a scathing expose, determined to uncover the deception behind Mia's curated life.
But there's something wrong at the farmhouse.
It slithers through Jenny's dreams when the children sing strange nursery rhymes at night. She's losing time. She's losing her hair. She starts to worry that she's losing her mind.
There is a horror at the heart of Black Swan, and it's waiting just for Jenny.
'Glorious, unhinged and utterly irresistible'
- Catriona Ward, bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street
'Gripping, unsettling, enthrallingly layered and utterly laced with doom'
- Olivie Blake, bestselling author of Girl Dinner
An electrifying horror novel about the queen of the trad wives, full of gothic rot, doppelgangers and one macabre, insidious deception, from three-time Bram Stoker winner Sarah Langan.
About the Author
Sarah Langan, a three-time recipient of the Bram Stoker Award, is the author of several novels including A Better World and Good Neighbors. She's a founding board member of the Shirley Jackson Awards and has a master of science from NYU in environmental toxicology. She's from Long Island and now lives in Los Angeles with her family, where she works in both film and prose.
Reviews
Contemporary, gripping and wry, Trad Wife is a surreal and slick feminist feast for the senses that kept me thinking long after I finished the final page. A terrifying delight! Sarah Langan is the queen of modern horror. -- Sarah Pinborough, author of Behind Her Eyes
Wonderfully wrong in every way, Trad Wife wants to wriggle down your mouth hole and lay eggs -- Grady Hendrix, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Sarah Langan builds her delicate menace so expertly you don't realise where you are, until it's too late. The writing and plotting are exquisite. This book sticks to the reader like superglue, like flies to flypaper. Glorious, unhinged and utterly irresistible -- Catriona Ward, bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street
Creeping with terror and dread at every corner . . . this is a brilliant horror that's not for the fainthearted -- Stylist
Gripping, unsettling, enthrallingly layered and utterly laced with doom - I raced through TRAD WIFE with fascination and dread, like peeking through my fingers at a tragedy unfolding. As always, Sarah Langan's work is unfailingly empathetic and yet such a fascinating indictment of the public ethos. This is a riveting horror story about bodily autonomy and feminine agency at a time when we need it most -- Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of Girl Dinner
A genre beast - menacing, claustrophobic, and wholly unexpected. The novel never does what you expect as a reader. I really enjoyed it -- Mariana Enriquez, New York Times bestselling author of Our Share of Night
This is a full throttle supernatural horror that's not ashamed to be just that. A story that will give you night terrors... and also stop you ever being tempted to buy something from the Tiktok Shop -- SFX Magazine
Flat out brilliant! -- Paul Tremblay, author of Horror Movie
A compelling take on the trad wife phenomenon that eschews the easy satirical takedown and goes instead for the gothic horror potboiler approach that is pro-women but anti-system, the unhinged, terrifying finale of Trad Wife is one of the true horror experiences of the summer that are you simply not prepared for -- GrimDark
Filtered through an influencer's ring light Langan combines the low grade nausea of domestic horror and dread of a more sublime nature - the result is ridiculously impressive and damnably frightening -- FanFiAddict
A methodic, apron-clad dread that gets under your skin and stays there . . . Smart, feminist horror that builds a world so recognisable its eventual, terrifying unravelling feels both shocking and inevitable . . . This novel doesn't just want to scare you; it wants to make you understand why you were already afraid -- Ginger Nuts of Horror
Eerie, chilling, gross, and truly disquieting -- FanFiAddict
Book Information
ISBN 9781035075973
Author Sarah Langan
Format Paperback
Page Count 352
Imprint Tor Nightfire
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Weight(grams) 434g
Dimensions(mm) 238mm * 154mm * 27mm
