{"product_id":"all-things-consoled-9780857059130","title":"All Things Consoled","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWinner of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Award for Non-fiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA poignant, complex and hugely resonant memoir about the shift from being a daughter to a guardian and caregiver, by a prizewinning author.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"A tour de force. I am in awe of the sheer skill of this writing, the poignant truth of the smallest detail, the complexity of Hay's understanding, and the potential this book has to change the way we see families and in our place inside them\" RACHEL JOYCE, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Elizabeth Hay, one of Canada's most celebrated novelists, comes a startling and beautiful memoir about the drama of her parents' end, and the longer drama of being their daughter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJean and Gordon Hay were a formidable pair. She was an artist and superlatively frugal; he was a proud and principled schoolteacher with an explosive temper. Elizabeth, the so-called difficult child, always suspected she would end up caring for them in their final years, in part to atone for her childhood sins.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilip Roth once said, \"Old age is a massacre\". \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAll Things Consoled\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e takes you inside the massacre as Hay's ferociously independent parents become increasingly dependent on her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith remarkable wit and honesty, Hay lays bare the agony of a family coping as old age turns into the tragedy of living too long. In the end she arrives at a more nuanced understanding of her mother and father, and of herself as their daughter. They were and remain the two vivid giants in her life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quercus Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42752140116174,"sku":"9780857059130","price":19.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/0883\/2974\/files\/9780857059130_a.png?v=1725614284","url":"https:\/\/www.bookxcess.com\/products\/all-things-consoled-9780857059130","provider":"BookXcess","version":"1.0","type":"link"}