{"product_id":"all-things-consoled-book-elizabeth-hay-9780771039751","title":"All Things Consoled","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom Elizabeth Hay, one of Canada's beloved novelists, comes a startling and beautiful memoir about the drama of her parents' end, and the longer drama of being their daughter. Winner of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonficiton.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJean and Gordon Hay were a colourful, formidable pair. Jean, a late-blooming artist with a marvellous sense of humour, was superlatively frugal; nothing got wasted, not even maggoty soup. Gordon was a proud and ambitious schoolteacher with a terrifying temper, a deep streak of melancholy, and a devotion to flowers, cars, words, and his wife. As old age collides with the tragedy of living too long, these once ferociously independent parents become\u003cbr\u003eincreasingly dependent on Lizzie, the so-called difficult child. By looking after them in their final decline, she hopes to prove that she can be a good daughter after all.\u003cbr\u003e In this courageous memoir, written with tough-minded candour, tenderness, and wit, Elizabeth Hay lays bare the exquisite agony of a family's dynamics--entrenched favouritism, sibling rivalries, grievances that last for decades, genuine admiration, and enduring love. In the end, she reaches a more complete understanding of the most\u003cbr\u003eunforgettable characters she will ever know, the vivid giants in her life who were her parents.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50133182578961,"sku":"CIN0771039751G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50513803968785,"sku":"GOR013980309","price":12.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50666796318993,"sku":"CIN0771039751VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53233268556049,"sku":"GOR014819359","price":33.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0771039751.jpg?v=1751106324","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-ie\/products\/all-things-consoled-book-elizabeth-hay-9780771039751","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}