~ Standard Hardcover
~ Winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction - 2018
All Things Consoled: A Daughter's Memoir
Elizabeth Hay, one of Canada's most beloved novelists, has written a poignant, complex, and hugely resonant memoir about the shift she experienced between being her parents' daughter to their guardian and caregiver.
All Things Consoled is a startlingly beautiful memoir that addresses the exquisite agony of family, the unstoppable force of dementia, and the inevitability of growing old.
"Hay's prose elevates this ordinary rite of passage (the death of one's parents) to something rare and poetic. Page-after-page this is a masterclass in observation; a lesson in how meaning can emerge from grief." -- 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Jury Citation