We adopt up-to-date yields of 7Li, 13C, 15N from classical novae and use a
well tested model for the chemical evolution of the Milky Way in order to
predict the temporal evolution of these elemental species in the solar
neighborhood. In spite of major uncertainties due to our lack of knowledge of
metallicity effects on the final products of explosive nucleosynthesis in nova
outbursts, we find a satisfactory agreement between theoretical predictions and
observations for 7Li and 13C. On the contrary, 15N turns out to be overproduced
by about an order of magnitude.Comment: 8 pages, latex, 3 figures. To appear in "The Chemical Evolution of
the Milky Way: Stars versus Clusters", eds. F. Giovannelli and F. Matteucci
(Kluwer: Dordrecht
