Could Caro Claire Burke’s Yesteryear be the first great tradwife novel? This was my hope: finally, a literary response to the unhinged social trend of women cosplaying “traditional Christian values” – pronatalism and... Read more »
‘Serve, smile, procreate’: Yesteryear author Caro Claire Burke on the rise of the tradwife | Fiction
Gingham dresses, linen aprons; toddlers smiling toothily out from their perch on a perfectly cocked hip. And the mothers holding these babies? They’re beautiful, obviously. They speak in a whisper. Their skin... Read more »
A lot of terrible things happen to Kathy Burke in her memoir, though you won’t find her mired in self-pity. Burke was a toddler when her mother died from stomach cancer, meaning... Read more »
Kathy Burke’s mother, Bridget, died of stomach cancer when she was 18 months old; she writes that it made her “feel dead famous” in her community. She was raised by her older... Read more »
The Diamond Dagger for lifetime contribution to crime writing has been awarded to two authors for the first time after judges “almost came to blows” this year. Lynda La Plante and James... Read more »