Review: Vivien Horler
Yesteryear, by Caro Claire Burke (4th Estate)
A friend read this before I did, and said she thought it was weird. She didn’t finish it.
But I’d heard a podcast review by a Guardian panel, and it sounded intriguing. It is – I was hooked from the start.
Natalie is 32 and lives a traditional lifestyle – is in fact a trad wife. She and her husband Caleb live on their Idaho ranch, Yesteryear, and have five children with a sixth on the way. Handsome Caleb is not much of a farmer, but Natalie makes money as an internet influencer with five million followers.
She has a pretty kitchen where she bakes sourdough bread from scratch and creates impressive family meals. There are chickens in the coop and hand-collected eggs. The five sleepy, tousled children, all home-schooled, sit around the breakfast table eating their cereal with raw milk and drinking their squeezed orange juice. Continue reading