Book Club: 'Yesteryear' by Caro Claire Burke
Sun 28 Jun
|Inner Lifetime
FICTION - She built a fantasy of the "good old days." Then she woke up in them with all home comforts removed. Is it what she thought?
Time & Location
28 Jun 2026, 10:30
Inner Lifetime, Unit 3, 421 Newark Rd, Lincoln LN6 8RS, UK
About the event
Join us for a coffee morning book club for our next Fiction book...
YESTERYEAR...
Natalie Heller Mills has built a perfect life as a "tradwife" influencer — until she wakes one morning in the brutal reality of 1855, stripped of every modern comfort she's ever known. Is it an elaborate hoax, a twisted reality show, or something far more sinister?
Whats a tradwife? "Tradwife" is short for "traditional wife." It refers to a woman — usually framed around a particular online aesthetic — who embraces traditional gender roles: staying home, keeping house, cooking from scratch, raising children, and often being financially supported by her husband while he's the breadwinner. The term really took off through social media, where "tradwife" influencers post idealised, nostalgic content — think vintage dresses, homemade bread, big families, and a soft-focus 1950s-housewife vibe. It's a romanticised picture of domestic life from a bygone era.
A sharp…