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Yesteryear

Yesteryear

Yesteryear
Yesteryear
By:
Caro Claire Burke
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  • Number of books

    1 Published

  • KU

    ❌

  • Audiobook

    ✅

  • Series Status

    Complete

  • Interconnected

    N/A

  • Overall Rating

    Coming Soon

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A GMA BOOK CLUB PICK • INDIGO'S #1 BEST BOOK OF 2026 • A Waterstones Best Book of the Year • Barnes & Noble • A New York Times' 'Best Book of the Year So Far' • The Independent

A traditional American woman, a beautiful wife and mother who sells her pioneer lifestyle of raw milk and farm-fresh eggs to her millions of social media followers, suddenly awakens cold, filthy, and terrified in the brutal reality of 1855—where she must unravel whether this living nightmare is an elaborate hoax, a twisted reality show, or something far more sinister in this sensational debut novel.

My name was Natalie Heller Mills, and I was perfect at being alive.

Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle. Her charming farmhouse is rustic, her husband a handsome cowboy, her six children each more delightful than the last. So what if there are nannies and producers behind the scenes, her kitchen hiding industrial-grade fridges and ovens, her husband the heir to a political dynasty? What Natalie’s followers—all 8 million of them—don’t know won’t hurt them. And The Angry Women? The privileged, Ivy League, coastal elite haters who call her an antifeminist iconoclast? They’re sick with jealousy. Because Natalie isn’t simply living the good life, she’s living the ideal—and just so happens to be building an empire from it.

Until one morning she wakes up in a life that isn’t hers. Her home, her husband, her children—they’re all familiar, but something’s off. Her kitchen is warmed by a sputtering fire rather than electricity, her children are dirty and strange, and her soft-handed husband is suddenly a competent farmer. Just yesterday Natalie was curating photos of homemade jam for her Instagram, and now she’s expected to haul firewood and handwash clothes until her fingers bleed. Has she become the unwitting star of a ruthless reality show? Could it really be time travel? Is she being tested by God? By Satan? When Natalie suffers a brutal injury in the woods, she realizes two things: This is not her beautiful life, and she must escape by any means possible.

A gripping, electrifying novel that is as darkly funny as it is frightening, Yesteryear is a gimlet-eyed look at tradition, fame, faith, and the grand performance of womanhood.

Jamie’s review

Well, damn. I've never read anything quite like this. I know this one will stay with me for a long while. And for those reasons, I have to give it 5 stars.

Natalie is a tradwife influencer living on a farm in Idaho (of all places) and then suddenly finds herself living in the real life conditions she pretends to live by on her socials.

At times I was reminded of The Family Man, The Truman Show, M Night Shyamalan's The Village, even Get Out 😅 But especially Educated by Tara Westover.

I've never hated the main character so much that I was rooting for her demise. Living in Natalie's head was terrifying and yet, I couldn't stop reading.

Hard to believe this is the Author's debut novel. Incredible storytelling from a POV we don't typically get. Whewwwwww no wonder this blew up on BookTok!

Well, damn. I've never read anything quite like this. I know this one will stay with me for a long while. And for those reasons, I have to give it 5 stars.

Natalie is a tradwife influencer living on a farm in Idaho (of all places) and then suddenly finds herself living in the real life conditions she pretends to live by on her socials.

At times I was reminded of The Family Man, The Truman Show, M Night Shyamalan's The Village, even Get Out 😅 But especially Educated by Tara Westover.

I've never hated the main character so much that I was rooting for her demise. Living in Natalie's head was terrifying and yet, I couldn't stop reading.

Hard to believe this is the Author's debut novel. Incredible storytelling from a POV we don't typically get. Whewwwwww no wonder this blew up on BookTok!

Erica’s review

Erica hasn’t read this yet, it’s on her never ending TBR

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