Second Draft of My Life A Novel

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 makeSecond Draft of My Lifea funny, compulsively readable gem. From an authorThe Boston Globeapplauded 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.

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