Yesteryear

THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERTHE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTHE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'NIGHTMARISH, SHOCKING, BRILLIANT' - STYLIST'MADDENING, MESMERISING, INGENIOUS' - NEW YORK TIMES'FUNNY, SHARP ENOUGH TO DRAW BLOOD' - STEPHEN KING'DERANGED, DARING, CLEVERLY WRITTEN' - VOGUE'My name is Natalie Heller Mills, and I was perfect at being alive...'Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle - and her followers are sick with envy. 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 her 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? Natalie knows just two things for sure: this isn't her perfect life, and she must escape, by any means possible.As darkly funny as it is shocking and gripping, Yesteryear is an electrifying examination of tradition, fame, faith and the grand performance of womanhood, from a thrilling new talent in fiction.NOW BEING ADAPTED INTO A MAJOR FILM STARRING ANNE HATHAWAY'EVERYONE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT THIS BOOK' BELLA MACKIE'WICKEDLY FUNNY, FRIGHTENINGLY PERCEPTIVE'ABIGAIL DEAN'INVENTIVE, ADDICTIVE, A WILD RIDE' ASHLEY AUDRAIN'SHOT THROUGH WITH HUMOUR, LACED WITH DARKNESS' CLARE MACKINTOSH'THE STEPFORD WIVES MEETS THE HANDMAID'S TALE' HANNAH DEITCH

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A GMA BOOK CLUB PICK • A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (SO FAR) • A traditional American woman, a “tradwife” influencer, suddenly awakens 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.<BR><BR>"A bold and biting satire, Yesteryear…will have you cackling and gasping right to the final page."<BR>—Nita Prose, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid series<BR><BR>My name was Natalie Heller Mills, and I was perfect at being alive.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.

Ihr Leben ist perfekt. Solange man nicht hinter die Kulissen schaut.Mit bedrucktem Transparentumschlag und hochwertig veredeltem Bezug.Natalie Heller Mills hat alles: eine malerisch renovierte Farm, fünf Kinder, die um ihre Liebe buhlen, und einen Mann, der in Cowboystiefeln immerhin eine gute Figur abgibt. Vom Sauerteig bis zur Kindererziehung, nichts scheint ihr zu misslingen. Kein Wunder also, dass Millionen von Menschen ihr folgen, ihre Videos schauen, ihre Bilder anklicken. Sie gibt ihnen das, was sie wollen: eine heile Welt. Skandale werden unter den Teppich gekehrt, da, wo sie hingehören. Doch eines Tages wacht Natalie auf und sieht sich mit einer unbequemen Frage konfrontiert: Was wäre, wenn sie keine Nannys beschäftigen könnte, es keine helfenden Hände auf der Farm gäbe, kein Produktionsteam? Was wäre, wenn sie auf einmal das Leben führen müsste, das sie immer vorgetäuscht hat?'Caro Claire Burke hat mit Yesteryear einen genial bösen Roman über das Phänomen der Tradwives geschrieben.' ZEIT online'Yesteryear mausert sich gerade zum gesellschaftskritischen Easy Read des Sommers, denn der Roman ist ein Spiegel der fatalen Romantisierung der Vergangenheit und der heutige Social-Media-Kultur ... Burkes fiktive Welt ist grotesk und wäre fast schon lustig, wenn sie nicht so erschreckend real wäre.' Süddeutsche Zeitung'Es gibt nichts Besseres als gute Plot Twists, und dieser ist wirklich sehr, sehr gut.' Spiegel Online'Yesteryear ist ein kluger und ausgesprochen unterhaltsamer Roman. ... Yesteryear nimmt das Tradwife Phänomen ernst genug, um seine Verführungskraft zu verstehen, und zugleich genau genug auseinander, um zu zeigen, wie viel Privilegiertes und Politisches hinter der vermeintlich harmlosen Sehnsucht nach einem traditionellen Leben stecken kann.' Clara Hoheisel, Lesart - Deutschlandfunk Kultur'Yesteryear packt einen bei der Kehle und lässt nicht mehr los.' Anne Hathaway'The Stepford Wives meets The Handmaid's Tale' Hannah Deitch