The Unexpected Waltz

"Charming...The Unexpected Waltz chronicles one woman's second chance at happiness and an opportunity to find her authentic self. The writing is pitch perfect--this is a winner!"--Elin Hilderbrand From the author of the "sharply written and emotionally accessible" (Kirkus Reviews) debut Love in Mid Air comes this moving novel about a middle-aged woman who regains her balance in life. Kelly Wilder becomes recently widowed from a much older,...
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"Charming...The Unexpected Waltz chronicles one woman's second chance at happiness and an opportunity to find her authentic self. The writing is pitch perfect--this is a winner!"--Elin Hilderbrand

From the author of the "sharply written and emotionally accessible" (Kirkus Reviews) debut Love in Mid Air comes this moving novel about a middle-aged woman who regains her balance in life. Kelly Wilder becomes recently widowed from a much older, wealthy man with whom she spent her married life doing charity work, building a lovely home, and, as she says, "pretending to be a whole lot more conservative and stupid and nicer than I really am."

Now, with too much time and money on her hands, Kelly has absolutely no idea what happens next. So on a whim she signs up for a ballroom dancing class, and slowly, step by high-heeled step, begins to rebuild her life with the help of friends old and new: Nik, a young Russian dance teacher who sees the artistic potential she left behind; Carolina, a woman in hospice, anxious to experience a whole lifetime in a few months; and Elyse, Kelly's girlhood best friend who knows all of her past secrets--including the truth about the man who long ago broke Kelly's heart.

In the vein of Jennifer Weiner's novels, The Unexpected Waltz is a deeply felt story about moving on after loss and finding a new walk--or dance--of life through the power of second chances.