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 *

Hillary Yablon, originally from the Chicago area, 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 is her debut novel, which received the Allegra Johnson Fiction Award at UCLA.

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