Unreal Estate: A Novelist Moves Into Frieda Fromm-Reichmann’s Cottage
Tuesday, May 25 at 7pm
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Author Ellen Prentiss Campbell in Conversation with Peerless Rockville debuting her new novel, Frieda’s Song.
Join author Ellen Prentiss Campbell in conversation with Peerless Rockville, launching her new novel Frieda’s Song, inspired by the life and work of renowned psychiatrist Frieda Fromm-Reichmann who fled Nazi Germany in 1935 and lived and worked at the Lodge, establishing its reputation for innovative treatment of mental illness, dying in her custom-built cottage on the grounds in 1957.
Campbell’s riveting novel explores the lives of the remarkable Frieda Fromm-Reichmann and fictional current day psychotherapist Eliza Kline who—fifty-two years after Frieda’s death—now lives in the Cottage. Eliza, a struggling clinician and single mother, seeks inspiration in Frieda’s work and finds surprising ways Frieda still inhabits the Cottage. The novel is a tale of how history and chance, and the work and people we love, shape our lives—and how the past remains present.
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