Trad Wife

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
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
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 pulse-racing read – HEAT Magazine
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
A compulsive, page-turning thriller. Darkly funny, provocative and impossible to categorise – Muddy Stilettos

• Three-time Bram Stoker Award recipient.
• Author of novels including A Better World and Good Neighbors.
• Founding board member of the Shirley Jackson Awards.
• Holds a Master of Science from NYU in Environmental Toxicology.
• Originally from Long Island, now resides in Los Angeles with her family.
• Works in both film and prose.

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