num_pages: 176
description: Flora Fontages is a famous Parisian actress who has been in exile from her native Canada for twenty years. When word comes that her long-estranged daughter Maud has disappeared in Quebec City she decides to return home accepting the part of Winnie the old crone in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days at a local theatre. The visit unexpectedly turns into a devastating confrontation with her past and present illusions as Flora finds she must come to terms with all the roles she has ever played in life as actress woman mother child and lover.
language: English
title: The First Garden
publisher: House of Anansi Press