The Memory Songbook

A forgotten manuscript - A lifetime of memories- One moment from the past could transform his future.

When Frank first touched a guitar, everything changed. Years later, with his music career's next big moment on the horizon, he's called home to care for his ailing mother.

As he loses her to Alzheimer's, Frank finds a manuscript he wrote that describes a miraculous day during the Summer of Love. Between the lines, he recalls the passions that shaped his youth - first love, worship of guitar god Pete Townshend, and the accidental discovery that music has the potential to cure memory loss.

Frank is pulled back in time-in the magical way a favorite song can take you back-and he reconnects with all the things his 17-year-old self found exciting. But it's one more treasure, the forgotten memory of one magical day, that could save his mother, his music, and his future...

"The Memory Songbook" belongs in the same category as filmmaker John Carney's "Sing Street" and "Once. The novel blends the enticement of music with the illumination of lyrical storytelling that shifts between the winter and summer of a prolific songwriter's life.