All Things Consoled

This book is likely to break your heart, and it will definitely make you think about your own family in the context of ageing. - Quill and Quire.

As a novel, this book would have been heartbreaking. But, being a memoir, it is 10 times more powerful. Those of us who have lived through similar experiences with ageing, ailing parents can discern the truth to Hay’s book. - Artsfile

Hay has written about it all, with care and candour, in a remarkable memoir - Maclean’s

Elizabeth Hay is a marvel. She honours her parents in this portrait of their final years. As steadfast a daughter as she is a writer, Hay writes with sometimes scalding authenticity about aging and the challenges that come with the end of a life, but she is never less than tender. I loved this moving memoir

Piercingly candid and exquisitely written, Elizabeth Hay’s memoir describes the intensity of the love, uncertainty and exasperation triggered by her parents’ dying. Yet there is humour here, too, even - especially - after the final goodbyes

In All Things Consoled, Hay chronicles with breath-taking honesty the ravages of age and decline. She also shows how love, beauty and the sustenance of writing are a kind of balm for this reality of the human experience - C.B.C. Books

Poignant, poetic and sharply observed - Winnipeg Free Press

Luminous and moving. - Times Literary Supplement.