Yesteryear
A dark satirical thriller about a tradwife influencer who appears to wake up in 1855, unraveling across three timelines into a harrowing portrait of domestic abuse, untreated mental illness, and the performance of femininity. The book carries heavy, recurring content in several serious categories and is firmly adult reading.
Chapters to know about
The book opens on the day Natalie describes as the end of the life she imagined for herself, establishing a psychologically bleak, ominous tone from the first page.
Natalie's first pregnancy and childbirth are described in stark, unglamourized detail; she immediately struggles to bond with her newborn in scenes depicting acute postpartum depression.
Caleb's pattern of emotional manipulation, physical abuse, and covert drugging of Natalie escalates steadily through the backstory sections; depicted as systematic and sustained.