Trad Wife
14 May 2026Synopsis
'Sarah Langan never ceases to amaze'
GILLIAN FLYNN
Welcome to Black Swan.
A picture-perfect 300-acre Utah farm, home to lifestyle influencer Mia Wright, her all-American husband Gray and their eight 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 an immaculate blow-dry.
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, but finds it impossible. Mia really is that sunny and sweet, her husband that kind and handsome. Before long, Jenny begins to question her own life choices. Wouldn’t it be nice to just give up this silly career, be more like Mia, baking sour dough and loved by everyone?
But the answer is darker than she realises. Because Black Swan always has a price.
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14 May 2026
9781035075966Reviews
Insanely creepy, wildly entertaining and razor-sharp Gillian Flynn on Good Neighbours
I loved [Good Neighbours] so much, every word, every page, every painful surprise. I've been screaming the title to all who will listen Sarah Jessica Parker on Good Neighbours
An all-American horror novel about friendships - deep, shallow, toxic, true - that's unpredictable enough to make every page-turn stomach-crampingly stressful. Grady Hendrix on Good Neighbours
Sarah Langan plumbs these literal and metaphorical depths as they rip apart a once-bucolic suburb in her disturbing and mordantly funny new nove New York Times Book Review on Good Neighbours
