Second Draft of My Life - by Sara Lewis (Paperback)

About the Book

Novelist Charlotte Dearborn is fed up. She's had enough rejection and unlucky breaks to last a lifetime. Forget writing, she tells herself--teaching the first grade must be better. An endearing tale of one woman's roundabout quest for happiness, "Second Draft of My Life" is a wonderful mix of insight and wry humor.

Book Synopsis

Forty-two years and five books into her life, Charlotte Dearborn abandons her noncommittal boyfriend and her sinking-ship writing career, and becomes an elementary school teacher. Sure, she's giving up her dream of being a famous novelist, but in exchange she'll find a stable income, job satisfaction, and maybe even love. At least that's how it'd work if she were a character in one of her novels. In real life, she's busy coping with twenty yelling first-graders, a teacher's lounge full of nasty coworkers, and a series of romantic misadventures that fall far, far short of the real thing.
Charlotte's struggle to navigate the waters of a new career, a new single life, and the loss of her identity as a writer make Second Draft of My Life a funny, compulsively readable gem. From an author The Boston Globe applauded as "very, very good on the business of falling in and out of love," it is part romantic comedy, part manual for living, and wholly triumphant.

Review Quotes

Houston Chronicle Witty and bittersweet....Lewis writes with a companionable ease....Flashes of humor shine throughout the novel, at times reaching drop-the-book-while-laughing brilliance.

San Diego Union-Tribune There is something honest and sweet that just works here, something so straightforward and hopeful and true that it cancels out any criticism.

About the Author

Sara Lewis is also the author of the novels The Answer Is Yes, But I Love You Anyway, and Heart Conditions, as well as the collection Trying to Smile and Other Stories. She lives in San Diego with her husband and two children. You can visit her Web site at www.saralewis.com