Her Turn: A Witty Chick Lit Novel for Divorced Women About Second Acts and Unexpected Friendship in Middle Age

A delightful novel in the vein of Younger and The Unbreakables, with a hint of Nora Ephron, about a journalist who stumbles into an unusual relationship with the woman married to her former husband.

A journalist in Washington, DC, Liz has turned lemons into lemonade after her husband walked out on her a decade ago. She likes her life—she’s the editor of My Turn, a weekly column in which readers write about their lives, has a few romantic nibbles—some better than others—a good relationship with her teen-aged son, and has come to terms with the shock and heartbreak of her divorce. 

Or so she thinks.

One day at work, she receives a letter for the column she can’t ignore, because it’s written by her ex-husband’s current wife—AKA the other woman. It is the beginning of an unexpected correspondence between the two women—but only Liz knows the truth about their connection. Could it be she still cares? How far will she take this unusual relationship? And what happens if the truth comes out?

Her Turn is an immensely readable, joyful novel about fidelity and forgiveness that explores one woman’s second act in life, and the ties that still bind her to the first. 

Katherine Ashenburg is the author of six books and many magazine and newspaper articles, including more than 100 travel articles for The New York Times. She has worked as an academic, a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation producer and the Arts and Books editor of the Globe and Mail. Her books include The Mourner’s Dance: What We Do When People Die (FSG, US; Knopf, Canada) and The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History (FSG, US; Knopf, Canada; Profile Books, UK; plus multiple translation deals). The Dirt on Clean was chosen one of The Independent's Ten Best History Books of the year and one of the New York Public Library's 25 Best Books of the year. Her children’s edition of The Dirt on Clean, called All the Dirt: A History of Getting Clean (Annick Press, US and Canada; Sunest Publishing, Korea), won the 2018 Green Book Festival Award in the children’s category. Her bestselling debut novel, Sofie & Cecilia (Knopf, Canada), appeared in 2018.