The Crown of Willow Healing For twenty-two years he languished

For twenty-two years he languished in prison

and surely

It's a little kid

taught geography to Napoleon

The children we come to meet through the friendships they have formed with Jonathan defy the stereotypes of urban youth too frequently presented by the media

The Crown of Willow Healing For twenty-two years he languishedAs a young girl Nora du Cayne had given up everything for love. In the Latin Quarter of Paris she had endured a tempestuous relationship and an exciting, yet crazy life that swung like a pendulum from good to bad, and back again. In her old age, she recounts a crowded and eventful life, full of trials and tribulations interspaced with happiness, and muses on what might have been if only she had led a quieter existence.