Sylvia's Second Act

A Novel

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Pub Date Mar 12 2024 | Archive Date May 11 2024
PENGUIN GROUP Viking | Pamela Dorman Books

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Her husband’s cheating on her. She hates Boca. Sylvia is mad and she isn’t going to take it anymore. She’s moving back north, to the city of her dreams—with her best friend, Evie, in tow. Think a screwball comedy featuring a sophisticated Thelma and Louise with martinis in hand . . .

When sixty-three-year-old Sylvia finds her husband in bed with the floozy of their Boca retirement community, she’s shocked and furious . . . at first. By the time her head stops spinning, Sylvia realizes that actually, this isn’t what she wants anymore anyway.

So she enlists her best friend, the glamorous older widow Evie, to join her in setting up a new life in Manhattan. Sylvia’s ex-husband may have lost her life savings, but Sylvia and Evie are scrappy and determined, unopposed to pawning jewelry and roughing it in tiny apartments. And before long, Sylvia signs on to revive her decades-old wedding planning business with a former professional rival. Sylvia has a lot to prove, and beneath it all, she can’t help but wonder: Will she ever be able to get back into the dating game?

Sylvia doesn't want to be twenty-five or thirty again. Her age gives her wisdom, experience, and perspective. A career, sex, fun, and a new romance—her entire second act is stretched out in front of her, beckoning to her. It’s her time, and watch out, world, Sylvia is coming!
Her husband’s cheating on her. She hates Boca. Sylvia is mad and she isn’t going to take it anymore. She’s moving back north, to the city of her dreams—with her best friend, Evie, in tow. Think a...

Advance Praise

"Sixty-something Sylvia Fischer'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 Andrews, New York Times bestselling author of The Homewreckers and The Santa Suit

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"Sixty-something Sylvia Fischer'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...


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ISBN 9780593493618
PRICE $29.00 (USD)
PAGES 368

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Featured Reviews

"Wedding drama is the best," and Sylvia Fisher absolutely agrees. She should know after making it her career and being damn good at it. But the wedding belle that broke her was her daughter's best friend, the bridezilla who set fire to her front lawn. And now she's sixty three, stuck living with her husband at a senior condo in Boca Raton, and hating her life. The icing on the cake is, upon returning home, she catches sight of her arch-enemy Belinda and her husband in a very delicate position, and the cherry on top is hubby Louis admitting he lost all of their money in a shady investment scheme. What will Sylvia do now...possibly fulfill her dream of living in Manhattan with her best friend, shopping for designer clothes, and revitalizing her wedding planning life?
This is a rom-com for the over sixty set, with plenty of laughs, family agita, insurmountable problems, tears and yes, romance. But it's also a novel that emphasizes self-love and self-awareness and there's no better drama than that.

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