Jamie Ford Luncheon at The Lake Forest Club

Jamie Ford, author of Songs of the Willow Frost

(Ballantine  $26.00, due September 10)

Wednesday October 2 at 11:30 a.m.

Lake Forest Club

Luncheon $42.00, includes the book

To reserve call 847-234-4420

From Jamie Ford, the New York Times bestselling author of the beloved

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, comes a much-anticipated second

novel. Set against the backdrop of Depression-era Seattle, Songs of

Willow Frost is a powerful tale of two souls—a boy with dreams for his

future and a woman escaping her haunted past—both seeking love, hope,

and forgiveness.


 


Twelve-year-old William Eng, a Chinese American boy, has lived at

Seattle’s Sacred Heart Orphanage ever since his mother’s listless body

was carried away from their small apartment five years ago. On his

birthday—or rather, the day the nuns designate as his birthday—William

and the other orphans are taken to the historical Moore Theatre, where

William glimpses an actress on the silver screen who goes by the name of

Willow Frost. Struck by her features, William is convinced that the

movie star is his mother, Liu Song.


 


Determined to find Willow and prove that his mother is still alive,

William escapes from Sacred Heart with his friend Charlotte. The pair

navigate the streets of Seattle, where they must not only survive but

confront the mysteries of William’s past and his connection to the

exotic film star. The story of Willow Frost, however, is far more

complicated than the Hollywood fantasy William sees onscreen.


 


Shifting between the Great Depression and the 1920s, Songs of Willow

Frost takes readers on an emotional journey of discovery. Jamie Ford’s

sweeping novel will resonate with anyone who has ever longed for the

comforts of family and a place to call home.

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Lake Forest Club 554 N. Westmoreland Rd., Lake Forest,Illinois 60045