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Trad Wife
- Author
- Sarah Langan
- Narrator
- Stephanie Németh-Parker
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 14 May 2026
- Run Time
- 11 hours 30 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Horrifyingly vivid in the narration of Stephanie Németh-Parker.
'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 . . .
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 exposé, 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
Critics Review
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Flat out brilliant!
Paul Tremblay, author of Horror Movie
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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
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Draws on the Salem witch trials and Robert Chambers’s late-Victorian fantasy classic The King in Yellow, giving these elements a timely and chilling contemporary twist
Financial Times
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Think of it as a darker, even more horrifying Yesteryear . . . Trust us when we say that Trad Wife is the neo-gothic nightmare thriller you won’t be able to put down
Stylist
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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
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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 Magazine
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A pulse-racing read
Heat Magazine
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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
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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
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Eerie, chilling, gross, and truly disquieting
FanFiAddict
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A compulsive, page-turning thriller. Darkly funny, provocative and impossible to categorise
Muddy Stilettos
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Details
- Author
- Sarah Langan
- Narrator
- Stephanie Németh-Parker
- Duration
- 11 hours 30 minutes
- Release Date
- 14 May 2026
- ISBN
- 9781035076000
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Contemporary horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction, Occult fiction / Paranormal Horror, Family life fiction / Stories about family
Synopsis
Horrifyingly vivid in the narration of Stephanie Németh-Parker.'Trad Wife is terrifying . . . a surreal and slick feminist feast'– Sarah Pinborough, bestselling author of Behind Her EyesYour favourite influencer is about to be exposed . . .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 exposé, 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
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