London Sojourn: Rewriting Life After Retirement

What happens when a burnt-out professor trades academia for a fresh start in the city of her dreams--only to find reinvention far tougher than she imagined?

At sixty-five, Rebecca Knuth walks away from the security and status of academia, determined to reimagine herself in London. She craves more--more creativity, more stories, more life. Immersing herself in the city's literary and cultural world, she enrolls in a creative nonfiction masters program, trains as a guide, joins the prestigious London Library, and reclaims her voice as a writer. London becomes her muse, a place of transformation where shedding her old identity is inseparable from rebuilding herself as a woman. But change is never simple.

Her mother's health declines. Rebecca lands in intensive care. She's harassed on the Underground. Exhaustion takes hold. Doubt creeps in--about her ambition, her motivation, even her sense of belonging. Where exactly is home?

A memoir of reinvention, resilience, and self-discovery, London Sojourn speaks to retirees, creatives, and seekers longing to step beyond certainty into something new.