Caro Claire Burke’s inauguration to the publishing world is one most fledgling authors can only dream of. She has written Yesteryear, the buzziest debut novel of the year - so buzzy, in fact, it’s already being adapted for screen with Anne Hathaway set to produce and star in the feature film iteration. But the novel’s premise, and its thrilling execution, really does live up to its billing.
Natalie Heller Mills, a tradwife influencer living on her exquisitely curated ranch, Yesteryear, watches her sourdough starters rise like her Instagram following, until she one day wakes up horror-stricken in 1855 on her “not ranch, ranch” to her “not husband, husband” and “not life, life.” Burke’s prose grabs you by the wrist and doesn’t let you go, all the way up to the novel’s much anticipated and unguessable (yes, truly, unguessable) twist.
