Bøger af Hillary Yablon

"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!"--

63-årige Sylvia bor i et pensionistparadis i Florida med sin mand, men da hun finder ham i seng med en anden kvinde, bliver hendes liv vendt på hovedet. Chokeret og rasende forlader hun sit gamle liv og tager sammen med sin bedste veninde, den glamourøse ældre enke Evie, til Manhattan for at genoptage sin tidligere karriere som wedding planner.Der er dog mange bump på vejen, for Sylvias eksmand har formøblet hendes opsparing og spærret alle kreditkort. Men Sylvia og Evie er snu og beslutsomme, og de har ikke noget imod at pantsætte smykker, bo på et ungdomsherberg i New York og nette sig på et Starbucks-toilet undervejs.Det er ikke, fordi Sylvia drømmer om at være ung igen. Hun føler sig godt tilpas i sin alder, der giver hende visdom, erfaring og perspektiv, og nu skal næste del af livet erobres … En ny by, karriere, romantik, sex og sjov. Så pas på, verden, for her kommer Sylvia! Pressen skriver: "En herlig debut … Det er umuligt ikke at heppe på den stærke heltinde.“– PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"En førsteklasses roman.“–STEVEN ROWLEY"En sand perle! Hver side i denne bog er en fryd.“–KJ DELL’ANTONIA"En ren fornøjelse!“– MARY LAURA PHILPOTT"Fyldt med varme, energi og humor … Fantastisk sjov!“– VERONICA HENRY„Her er den bog, alle kvinder skal læse! En sjov, vild, moden kvinde og hendes lige så fantastiske bedste veninde, der indtager storbyen.“– JESSE Q. SUTANTO"En sprudlende, skøn historie … læserne vil give denne herlige venindehistorie fra Manhattan et stående bifald.“– MARY KAY ANDREWS

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!

"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"--

When 63-year-old Sylvia finds her husband in bed with their Boca retirement community floozy, she feels the emotions you'd expect (shock, fury), but once she collapses in a booth at a bar late that night with her best friend, the glamorous older widow Evie, Sylvia allows herself to admit some things to herself: she hates Boca. It's for old people, and she doesn't feel old. While she's beyond angry with her husband, she acknowledges that she hasn't exactly been the best partner of late either, and that their relationship may have run its course. Sylvia wants to travel and have adventures. She sacrificed her own career potential to raise a daughter and keep house-and she doesn't regret it, she just also wants more for herself.Sylvia decides it isn't too late to go and get the life she wants. She enlists Eve to come along with, and the two flee Boca for Manhattan.What she doesn't anticipate is how unsupportive her daughter and husband are of her plan. Isabel is convinced her mother's "life of leisure" up to this point makes her "entirely ill-suited" for the work force, and she must "just make it work with Dad." Worse, her husband reveals he's lost their life savings, and he cuts off her credit card to boot.But Sylvia and Evie are scrappy and determined, unopposed to pawning jewelry, roughing it at a NYC youth hostel and freshening up in a Starbucks bathroom along the way. Manhattan, careers, romance, sex, fun-their entire second acts are stretched out in front of them, beckoning them. It's their time.