Sylvia's Second Act

A first-rate novel of second chances that will have you laughing right from the start. Sylvia will show you that it’s never too late to reinvent yourself, especially if you have a good friend by your side and a cosmopolitan in hand. * STEVEN ROWLEY *Sixty-something Sylvia Fisher’s life needs a make-over. She’s sick of retirement life in Boca Raton AND her cheating husband. Novelist Hillary Yablon gives readers hungry for a midlife romance a fizzy, delicious story we didn’t know we needed. Take a bow, Sylvia, cause readers are gonna give this laugh-out-loud female buddy story made in Manhattan a standing ovation. * MARY KAY ADAMS *Sylvia’s story hit all of my favorite notes - laugh out loud funny, action packed and ultimately redemptive. It’s a love song to women of a certain age, and I’ll be humming it for years to come. * ANNABEL MONAGHAN *A gem! Every page of this book is a delight. * KJ DELL’ANTONIA *I’m ready to audition real-life candidates for the Sylvia to my Evie (or the Evie to my Sylvia)… These two are living the dream and getting up to exactly the level of post-retirement fun I want to have one day. Pure delight! * MARY LAURA PHILPOTT *This is the book that every woman deserves! A fun, fierce mature woman and her equally awesome best friend taking on the big city and pulling off glamorous weddings? Yes please. I am going to need an entire series about the adventures of Sylvia and Evie! * JESSIE Q. SUTANTO *

Originally from the Chicago area, Hillary Yablon lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two young sons. She is a graduate of Princeton University, and earned her M.A. in poetry from The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. This, her debut novel, received the Allegra Johnson Fiction Award at UCLA.