Award-winning novelist Jamie Ford joins host Gil Mansergh for Conversations With Writers. Ford has followed his beloved novel The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet with a much-anticipated second novel set against the backdrop of Seattle's depression-era Chinatown. Songs of Willow Frost tells the tale of two youngsters who escape from an orphanage to find the Chinese-American boy's mother - a woman he thinks they have seen in a Hollywood movie. As author Pat Conroy writes: "Ford is a first-rate novelist... With his new book, he takes a great leap forward and demonstrates the uncanny ability to move me to tears."