Fearne Cotton

Hello and welcome to the Happy Place Book Club with me, Fern Cotton.

Who said that word to you?

Today, yesteryear, by Caro Clare Burke.

Right, now, Natalie Heller is a trad wife influencer online.

She's got the perfect life, a brood of beautiful children and a handsome cowboy husband who eats her homemade bread and jams in their gorgeous red barn.

What her millions of followers don't know is that she's got a whole army of hidden staff and industrial kitchen appliances helping her out.

Then, one day, she wakes up in the 1800s and is forced to live this traditional fantasy for real.

You will not see the mad twist in this book coming.

I blimmin' well didn't.

It's absolutely incredible.

Even as I was reading the twist, I was like, wait, what is going on?

I'm so delighted that we picked Yesteryear as our Happy Place Book Club read for May because you lot have been loving it too.

Here's Steph.

Well Steph, Vicky's got some thoughts on main character Natalie too.

And this is Taylor.

She's got some great takes on the writing itself.

I absolutely devoured Yestir.

As you lot have just got into it there, there are so many meaty topics in this book.

The manosphere, motherhood, religion, modern feminism.

So I was really fascinated to hear from Caro how she managed to weave such heavy topics into a fiction so seamlessly.