Green Vanilla Tea
Finch Memoir Prize winner
“…a knock-out book that hits so many of the right notes and is completely relevant in today’s world.” ~ Susan Duncan, author of Salvation Creek

Green Vanilla Tea
In a story spanning heartache and humour, Marie Williams writes about her family’s experiences with a terminal illness they call the ‘Green Goblin.’ Her husband, Dominic, is in his early forties when diagnosed with younger onset dementia with motor neurone disease.
Green Vanilla Tea is a story about love and life, in a world where so much is amiss, written as an offering of hope for their two teenage sons.
Marie’s writing started out as a spontaneous response to grief. Amidst the demands of caring for her husband and parenting her sons, writing kept her anchored.
It held still the paradox, where life was both empty and full, together and falling apart and the simplest things were the most extraordinary.
She wrote of love, loss and finding hope in inexplicable times.
After Dominic died in 2007, Marie collated her musings together for the boys – a way to give shape to a story that lay beyond the reach of articulation. So much of what they experienced felt invisible, slippery and without words. They asked her to write about it. To “capture it somehow” and “give their story form.”
Marie wrote with no intention to publish; it was enough that her writing provided a launching pad for rich conversations with her sons. The human experience is intricate – as joyous as it is painful – and they explored it all. Whether chopping vegetables at the kitchen counter or driving to
This creative act of family storytelling went on to become an
Above all, it is a love story.
Marie’s memoir, Green Vanilla Tea, won the Finch Memoir Prize, 2013.
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