High Hopes

by Anne Abel

2025 · Paperback, eBook

At fifty-nine, after a lifetime of depression, Anne is unexpectedly lifted by a Springsteen concert. At sixty she quits teaching and books a solo twenty-six-day trip following his Australian tour — a late-life adventure that changes her.

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