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~ 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.  All Things Consoled becomes, itself, a consolation for anyone desparing at the loose ends that parents leave behind.  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