In 2001, a womans skeleton was found in the woods overlooking Montreals Royal Victoria Hospital. Despite a bewildering array of attemps, the woman was never identified. Assigned the name Madame Victoria, her remains were placed in a box in an evidence room and, eventually, forgotten. But not by Catherine Leroux, who constructs in her form-bending Madame Victoria twelve different histories for the unknown woman. Like musical variations repeating a theme, each Victoria meets her end only after Leroux resurrects her, replacing the anonymous circumstances of her death with a vivid re-imagining of her possible lives.

"First published in French by Éditions Alto, Quebec City, 2015."-- Title page verso. "Translation of French book with same title."-- Title page verso.