Sylvia's Second Act : A Novel
β Scribed by Hillary Yablon
- Book ID
- 112871649
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2024
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 560 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780593493618
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β¦ Synopsis
Her husbandβs cheating on her. She hates Boca. Sylvia is mad and she isnβt going to take it anymore. Sheβs moving back north, to the city of her dreamsβwith 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, sheβs shocked and furious . . . at first. By the time her head stops spinning, Sylvia realizes that actually, this isnβt 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. Sylviaβs 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...
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