75: A Number A Passage A Present

75: a number a passage a present By: Audrey Ward Illustrations by Olivia Ducharme Adventures in aging are not for the faint of heart, as author Audrey Ward discovers in these pages. When the apartment she planned to occupy upon retirement proves to be unreasonable, she stashes her downsized belongings and heads off to Europe, packing little more than the accumulated mettle of her seventy-five years. Ms. Ward spends her rent on buses, trains, and planes from Austria to the Czech Republic, over to the Swiss Alps, then Italy, Ireland, and the French Mediterranean, ending up in a Paris apartment for two months. Along the way, she meets up with friends and is often reminded of the vagabond life of her Appalachian childhood and of living in the Provençal region of France when her children were young. The illustrations included are line drawings by her fifteen-year-old granddaughter Olivia, who, along with her brother Will, seventeen, traveled with their grandmother for the first two weeks of the expedition. A lot of people have said they envied Audrey Ward taking such a trip; others frowned, incredulous. Still, others surmised that she was losing her mind to attempt such a passage on her own. The reader can decide independently.

• • Author: Audrey Ward
• • Publisher: Rosedog Books
• • Publication Date: September 07, 2021
• • Number of Pages: 106 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1636610161
• • ISBN-13: 9781636610160