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THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER

'EVERYONE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT THIS BOOK' - BELLA MACKIE

'NIGHTMARISH, SHOCKING, BRILLIANT' - STYLIST

'MADDENING, MESMERISING, INGENIOUS' - NEW YORK TIMES

'INTELLIGENT, INCISIVE, INSANELY READABLE' - JENNIE GODFREY

'DERANGED, DARING, CLEVERLY WRITTEN' - VOGUE

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3 authors picked Yesteryear as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Page-turning and perplexing with a story I did not see coming. Plot twist after plot twist that did not disappoint. Impossible to sum it up, so read it if you're curious. Unique.

It's about a tradwife influencer whose chirpy public self masks a very different person underneath with opinions that would shock everyone around her if only they knew. No one in the book is likeable, including the protagonist, but you still want to know how things will turn out, and you get that the protagonist is doing what she thinks she must in order to survive. There's a vicious understory that's occasionally very funny. Very hard to put down! And it leaves lots to think about.

Twists & turns that take a familiar 2026 premise and turn it upside-down, taking us with its unsympathetic but fascinating narrator on a journey that changes every part of our perspective.

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