Yesterday Audiobook

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• “A poignant look at the fallibility of memory and how we can deceive ourselves into believing the most bald-faced lies to protect our own comfort and security.”

  — Los Angeles Times

• “First novelist Yap has built an immersive, compelling, and terrifying world where the only truth people know is what they choose to tell themselves. Verdict: For readers seeking a new spin on the unreliable narrator or fans of stories of self-deception such as Dan Chaon’s Ill Will or E. Lockhart’s We Were Liars.”

  — Library Journal (starred review)

• Suspenseful, thought-provoking and uniquely relevant as it explores the pliability of memory, fidelity and factuality

  — Family Circle

• Yap is a smart, swift plotter. . . . Remember her name.

  — Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times

• To tantalizing degrees, Yap reinvents the unreliable narrator by ingeniously weaving together true, imagined and fabricated back stories.

  — Lloyd Sachs, Chicago Tribune

• If you're into salacious plots, clever twists, and a mysterious murder, search no more.

  — Marie Claire

• The thriller of the summer

  — The Guardian [UK]

• [An] ingenious debut...Yap fully exploits her provocative premise.

  — Publishers Weekly [starred review]

• First novelist Yap has built an immersive, compelling, and terrifying world where the only truth people know is what they choose to tell themselves. For readers seeking a new spin on the unreliable narrator or fans of stories of self-deception such as Dan Chaon's Ill Will or E. Lockhart's We Were Liars."—Library Journal (starred review)

• Yap is venturing into new genre territory--dare I call it a neuro-sci-fi thriller? An ambitious and fascinating twist on the throwback detective story, where we can't guess who is the killer and who is the victim...and memory itself is on trial.

  — Sandra Block, author of Little Black Lies

• A compelling debut... The piecing together of disparate memories and the surprise ending to this speculative fiction world will thrill mystery fans.

  — Booklist

• Makes us think differently, and more deeply, about ourselves from the world we live in... it's a twisty, well-plotted thriller and an exploration of memory itself.

  — Omnivoracious

• At once a high-concept thriller with a sci-fi premise and an old-school noir, Felicia Yap's Yesterday is a tasty, satisfyingly grounded blend. A rich, rewarding debut that shows the ways that memory can betray us as painfully--and perhaps as inevitably--as those we love.

  — Andrew Pyper, bestselling author of The Demonologist

• An intriguing, fast-paced thriller that captivated me right from the start.

  — Kate Rhodes, author of Crossbones Yard

• Hypnotic and haunting, Yesterday confidently blends suspense, noir, and science fiction to construct a truly original, breathtaking story. Felicia Yap's debut is a work of genius.

  — Hilary Davidson, author of Blood Always Tells

• Never has psychological crime fiction been so original, so witty and so inventive. This is an absolute firecracker of a read. I haven't enjoyed a debut this much in ages.

  — William Shaw, author of The Birdwatcher

• Felicia Yap takes a unique premise and rockets through this year's most clever storyline. Spectacular twists, characters as distinct as they are compelling, and a resolution absolutely no one will have seen coming make Yesterday propulsive read. Memory loss has never been so fun.

  — Michael Cooper, author of Clawback

• A great murder mystery with a unique and unsettling twist. This book delighted and confounded me in equal measure!

  — James Oswald, author of Natural Causes

• This was an amazing book, very original and despite challenging the reader's suspension of disbelief it drew me in very quickly. Terrific to find a book that can be classed as a crime thriller yet stand out from the crowd.

  — Alex Gray, author of The Bird That Did Not Sing