A dark thriller set mainly in GLASGOW
Five Great Books featuring the ‘Tradwife’
1st October 2025
Five great books featuring the tradwife. The tradwife lifestyle is inspired by the homemaker of yesteryear, specifically a hark back to the 1950s, a reductive stereotype – yet Social Media is awash with lifestyle tips from women who make their lifestyle choice look appealing and easy (which it probably isn’t).
The Tradwife’s Secret by Liane Child – MONTANA
A marriage is between two people.
And their millions of followers.
Madison March is the perfect wife, with the perfect family and the perfect life.
She spends her days baking sourdough and picking vegetables from the garden while watching her children play in the fields surrounding her Montana homestead.
Dinner is always on the table for her husband, and they end their days sitting on the porch, watching the sun go down.
It’s a life anyone would dream of.
And it’s all a lie.
Everyone Is Lying To You by Jo Piazza – PHILADELPHIA
A tradwife never questions.
Lizzie and Bex were inseparable in college. But after graduation, Bex vanished. Fifteen years later, Bex is now Rebecca Sommers, a tradwife influencer with millions of followers who are obsessed with her perfect life, five children, and handsome husband Gray. Lizzie is a struggling magazine writer, watching reels while her young children demand her attention.
A tradwife never disobeys.
Then, out of the blue, Bex calls Lizzie with a career-making proposition – an exclusive interview with her about her multi-million-dollar business and an invitation to the influencer event of the year.
A tradwife never … lies?
But when Bex goes missing and Gray is found brutally murdered, Lizzie is suddenly plunged into the dark side of social media and confronted with jealousy and backstabbing. If Lizzie is going to find Bex – and save her life – she will need to uncover who her old friend has become, and which of Bex’s secrets is worth killing for …
Everyone Is Lying to You is the explosive tradwife thriller readers have been waiting for. Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Claire Douglas, First Lie Wins and The Housemaid.
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke (out April 2026) – THE AMERICAN WEST
My name was Natalie Heller Mills, and I was perfect at being alive.
Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle – and has the social media accounts to prove it. Her charming farmhouse on her working ranch is artfully cluttered, her husband is a handsome cowboy, her homemade sourdough boules are each more beautiful than the last. So what if there are nannies and producers and industrial-grade ovens behind the scenes? What Natalie’s followers don’t know won’t hurt them.
Then, one morning, Natalie wakes up in a strange, horrible version of reality. Her home, her husband, her children―they’re all familiar, but something’s off. Is this a hoax? A reality show? A test from God? One thing Natalie does know is that it’ll make one hell of an Instagram post…
Trad Wife by Sarah Langan (out May 2026) – PENNSYLVANIA
Welcome to Black Swan. A picture-perfect 300-acre Pennsylvanian farm, home to lifestyle influencer Mia Wright, her all-American husband Gray and their seven children. Millions of followers from around the world watch every day as Mia makes meals from scratch, milks the cows, home schools the kids, cleans the house wearing a smile and perfectly touselled hair.
Sent on assignment by her magazine, and desperate to claw back a tarnished career, reporter Jenny Kaplan will spend a week profiling Mia and her family. She arrives at the remote farmhouse ready to pen a scathing expose and uncover any deception behind Mia’s curated facade.
But Jenny soon has more to contend with than staged videos and homeschooling, because she is losing chunks of time, hallucinating at night. Her hair starts to fall out, and she is certain there is something in the house, watching, slithering. And why do the children move like that and sing strange nursery rhymes?
Tradwife by TC Parker – ENGLAND
Annihilation.
Everyone remembers the Heart of Solomon murders: three young married couples slaughtered around the dinner table, their bodies desecrated, in the UK’s first and only purpose-built Tradwife community.
And no suspect ever charged.
Writer Gina Lewis wants to know. Her plan: talk to the people who knew the three dead couples best, and try to understand what brought them to the Heart of Solomon. Puzzle out why they died – and how the “traditional marriage” Arcadia they were promised turned so dangerous, so quickly.
And she’ll keep going until she finds the truth. No matter what it costs her.
Enjoy our selection of tradwife books!
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