About this book
The #1 hottest debut novel of 2026 — a GMA Book Club Pick now being adapted for film starring Anne Hathaway.
Natalie Heller Mills has 8 million followers and a perfect life: a charming farmhouse, a handsome husband, six delightful children, and a carefully curated brand built around traditional domestic values. What her followers don't see are the nannies, the producers, and the industrial-grade appliances hidden behind the camera.
Then one morning, Natalie wakes up in 1855.
No Wi-Fi. No producers. No filters. Just a real working farm, real children, and an existence that is brutal, exhausting, and unrelenting. As Natalie hauls firewood, hand-washes clothes until her fingers bleed, and tries to survive the genuine dangers of the 19th century — including an injury that could kill her — she begins to wonder: is this an elaborate hoax? A divine test? Time travel? Or something far more sinister?
Biting, brilliant, and impossible to put down, Yesteryear is a razor-sharp social satire and dark thriller about authenticity, performance, motherhood, and the gulf between the life we curate and the life we actually live.
For fans of Lessons in Chemistry, The Handmaid's Tale, and anyone who has ever wondered what it would take to be truly honest about the life you perform.
