In My Mother’s Garden

In My Mother's Garden is a mind symphony that holds all the treasures and traumas of a little girl. The nine-year-old narrator, Cally Steinbach, brings us into her mother’s garden. It is in mama’s garden that every sense is awakened: the aroma of cinnamon bread, the songs harmonized after supper, the tangy touch of a gooseberry on the tongue and the first cracking of ice in the spring.

Connie Kurtenbach is the ninth child of a Saskatchewan farm family. Connie has been involved in the arts all her life. Gardening, writing, painting, counselling and all the renaissance studies are part of her life on Vancouver Island with the unfailing support of her husband.