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Sylvia's Second Act

A Novel

by Hillary Yablon
Jane Oppenheimer
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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!

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    March 12, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9780593827093
      • File size: 326754 KB
      • Duration: 11:20:44

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 22, 2024
      Yablon’s delightful debut features a spunky retiree who overhauls her life after she discovers her husband in flagrante. Sixty-three-year-old Connecticut transplant Sylvia Fisher is leading an unfulfilled retirement in a Florida development for fellow retirees when she walks in on her husband, Louis, having sex with a neighbor. To make matters worse, Louis has lost all of their money in a questionable investment scheme. Sylvia first decamps to her uptight daughter Isabel’s home in Connecticut, and later convinces her best friend from the development, glamorous widow Evie, to join her in reinventing their lives in New York City. Soon, Sylvia has a job as a wedding planner and falls for the divorced father of one of the brides. Will this new man prove to be every bit as much a cad as the one she left behind? Comic relief is aptly provided by Isabel’s amorous mother-in-law, and by a Bergdorf Goodman personal shopper who shows Sylvia and Evie they can be sexy at any age. It’s impossible not to cheer for the strong heroine at the center of Yablon’s savvy story.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Jane Oppenheimer's resolute cadence and crisp tone create the perfect palette for debut author Hillary Yablon's heartwarming and funny later-in-life makeover story. Coming home to her Florida condo, 63-year old Sylvia finds her husband engaged in passionate gymnastics with the neighborhood floozy. This incident prompts her to leave the tiresome man--who, by the way, has lost all of their money to bad investments--and the retirement community she loathes, and bravely begin a new life in Manhattan with her glamorous widowed friend, Evie. Oppenheimer's resonant tones and commanding delivery navigate Sylvia's riotous ups and downs with panache as she reignites her defunct wedding-planning business and plunges into the dating game. Lively characters, outrageous scenarios, and a thoroughly engaging performance make this a surefire hit. S.G. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine
    • Library Journal

      June 1, 2024

      Sylvia, a 63-year-old woman living in a Boca Raton retirement community, has a cheating husband and an opinionated daughter who would rather that Sylvia continue on living her unhappy life. When she realizes that she is no longer in love with her husband of 40 years and craves a life she never had, she packs up her jewelry and minimal belongings and moves to Manhattan with her seventysomething friend Evie. Sylvia jumps back into the wedding-planning business that she left years ago and finds her way into the dating scene of Manhattan. This novel contains numerous references to Sex and the City, and Sylvia and Evie are equally obsessed with clothes, shoes, and body image. Narrator Jane Oppenheimer gives Sylvia a pleasant and confident voice, companionably guiding listeners through the wildest parts of Sylvia's life. VERDICT Yablon's debut is an uplifting and fun novel, reminding listeners that life can be embraced at any age. That is, at least, as long as one has a love of great clothes (especially shoes), steadfast friends, and a little Sex and the City pizzazz.--Molly Olney-Zide

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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