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 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. Campbell, award-winning author of the historical novel The Bowl with Gold Seams, worked as a psychotherapist in Rockville for many years. She lived, with her husband Harold Pskowski, so close to the Lodge they awoke to the smell of smoke the day the hospital, empty for several years, burned to the ground. Frieda’s Cottage, recently restored by Peerless Rockville, survived the blaze, and has recently been designated a National Historic Landmark. “In Frieda’s Song, Ellen Prentiss Campbell makes the history of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann and psychotherapy relevant politically as well as surprisingly romantic. She ties it to the present day story with a masterful touch. Frieda says, ‘Human nature tends to health like plants to sunlight.’ All of her characters—both in the past and in the present—yearn for their own kind of sunlight. A wonderful, compelling read.” —Diana Wagman, author of Life #6: A Novel and The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets