Sylvia's Second Act

A Novel

De: Hillary Yablon

Narrado por: Jane Oppenheimer

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!

©2024 Hillary Yablon (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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"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, New York Times bestselling author of The Celebrants

"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 Andrews, New York Times bestselling author of The Homewreckers

"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, bestselling author of Nora Goes Off Script and Same Time Next Summer

Total fun!!!

I really enjoyed this book! I would recommend it to my friends ! Made me laugh out loud.

funny and not typical

The voice was perfect. The characters real and it was not prescriptive! I liked that there was no sacherine.

So entertaining!

Refreshing points of view from all characters, fun read! Thank you, think I found another author!

So many laughs!

Great story with a lot of humor. The narrator was very good too! I am recommending to my friends!

Just what I needed

I needed love, drama and laughter. This book delivers! I’ll be looking for more from this author

Wonderful Listen

This is a new author to me and I am hoping she write more about Sylvia! This was such a well written funny story with great characters. Most of all, an author who writes a fun story about older adults I have just about given up on immature rom-coms. The narrator is also new to me and so good, Jane reminds me of Julia Whelan (my favorite narrator).

So Much Fun!

Loved the character, Sylvia. She was such a hoot! And also so wise. Great book!

Funny, heartwarming, and intriguing story

Nice to have a story that breaks the usual “dating” story we have all read hundreds of times now.

I enjoyed it

I enjoyed this book. Excellent narration. Full of twists and excitement… it truly entertained. I would read it again.

Fantastic read/listen!!! A must!

Loved the characters, story, reading. Loved it all!! So fun and highly recommend to all!