Natalie Heller Mills has perfected the performance of a traditional, enviable life. Her farmhouse, handsome cowboy husband, beautiful children and homemade sourdough appear flawless to her devoted followers—though nannies, producers and industrial ovens remain carefully out of sight. Then Natalie awakens in a horrifying version of her own reality, where everything is familiar but profoundly wrong. Desperate to escape by any means necessary, she is forced to question tradition, fame, faith and the expectations imposed on womanhood. Darkly funny, unsettling and fiercely readable, Yesteryear is a provocative contemporary novel about the stories we perform and the lives they conceal.

Why You Should Read?

• Explore a sharp examination of curated online identities and the hidden labour behind apparent perfection.
• Follow Natalie through a gripping, nightmarish reality where certainty and control steadily unravel.
• Enjoy a darkly comic and unsettling story about tradition, faith, fame and motherhood.
• Discover an inventive contemporary novel that questions who gets to define a “perfect” life.