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* JabbaTableManners: Catherine writes about how disgusting Shaggy Beard is when eating and how she goes without wine during meals because sharing a goblet with him would mean having to deal with all the bits and crumbs he washes back into it.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: A lot, given the book's setting. AbusiveParents treated as normal, forcible marriages arranged for thirteen-year-old girls, etc. During that time period, it was all perfectly normal and acceptable, but seen from a modern viewpoint it can be kind of horrifying. That's part of the point.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: A lot, given the book's setting. AbusiveParents treated as normal, forcible marriages arranged for thirteen-year-old girls, etc. During that time period, it was all perfectly normal and acceptable, but seen from a modern viewpoint it can be kind of horrifying. That's part of the point. There's also the fact that her thirty-something mother is considered old; in the 13th century, she'd be well into middle-age.[[note]]given her parents were married when they were 15 and her eldest brother is 20, her mother is probably 35 or 36.[[/note]]
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* TheUpperCrass: Catherine's father, whose table manners are so terrible they put off one of her potential suitors, who, despite being favorably impressed with her, was so offended by his "burping, farting, and scratching his chest with his knife" that he left without a betrothal. She writes that it's nice to know she has her father's "beastliness" as well as his greed to drive away unwanted husbands (one earlier suitor wound up hit in the head with a chamber pot when he brought up the subject of a dowry).
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** PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: [[spoiler:Shaggy Beard's son, who inherits the betrothal after his father is killed in a brawl.]]
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** PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: [[spoiler:Shaggy Beard's son, son Stephen, who inherits the betrothal after his father is killed in a brawl.]]
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* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Perkin may or may not like Catherine[[spoiler:, but she marries Shaggy Beard's son]].
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* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Perkin may or may not like Catherine[[spoiler:, Catherine [[spoiler:, but she marries Shaggy Beard's son]].son Stephen]].
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The novel was [[TheFilmOfTheBook adapted to film]] in 2022 with Creator/BellaRamsey as Birdy.
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The novel was [[TheFilmOfTheBook adapted to film]] in 2022 with Creator/BellaRamsey as Birdy.
Birdy -- for tropes on the adaptation, see ''Film/CatherineCalledBirdy2022''.
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* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: Catherine refuses to refer to her fiance as anything but Shaggy Beard.
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* WorstAid: Inevitable, given the abysmal state of medical knowledge in the 13th century; at that point, the only 'doctor' most country people saw was the lady of the manor, who would consult her family's book of remedies. Mention is made of treating "inflammation of the eyes" with ''garlic'' (there isn't any "mother's milk" necessary for the normal treatment, so instead Catherine uses the same remedy she used on her nurse's boils the week before), and one unfortunate man has an infected wound packed with cobwebs. Unsurprisingly, he dies.
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* AbusiveParents: Her father often hits her, but she's pretty dismissive of it when she writes about it. The only people he never hits are his wife and Morwenna, Catherine's nurse.
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* AbusiveParents: Her father often hits her, but she's pretty dismissive of it when she writes about it. The only people he never hits are his wife and Morwenna, Catherine's nurse.nurse (who was also his wife's nurse, hence why she's safe).
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* EpistolaryNovel: The book is written in the form of Catherine's diary, which her brother (who is a monk, and who is the one who taught her to read and write) wishes her to write in to make her "wiser and more learned." Her mother isn't thrilled by the idea, but goes along with it to please her son.
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* RunawayHideaway: On the eve of what's supposed to be her leaving for her wedding to Shaggy Beard, Catherine runs away to her uncle George's home. He's away, but her aunt takes her in and takes care of her until she realizes it's her duty to go home.
