Yesteryear follows Natalie Heller Mills, a hugely successful “tradwife” influencer whose supposedly rustic life is supported by money, staff and media production. She wakes in what looks like the same home in 1855, without modern technology or the controlled image on which her business depends, and must decide whether the new reality is time travel, coercion or an elaborate performance.
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A tradwife influencer whose carefully produced identity is tested by the brutal material reality of 1855.
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Knopf’s 2026 hardcover (ISBN 9780593804216) is 400 pages. Penguin Random House separately lists a 592-page large-print edition, so page count must be tied to the chosen format.
Natalie’s curated nineteenth-century aesthetic becomes an actual nineteenth-century life. As physical danger replaces social-media criticism, she tries to identify who controls the situation and how far she will go to escape.
Yesteryear was written by Caro Claire Burke. This page links its factual claims to the publisher or author source.
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Knopf’s 2026 hardcover (ISBN 9780593804216) is 400 pages. Penguin Random House separately lists a 592-page large-print edition, so page count must be tied to the chosen format.
The publisher categorises it as suspense and thriller. Its 1855 setting is part of a speculative, satirical mystery rather than a conventional historical chronicle.
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