AustLit

j'Dementia is a frightening disease whenever it occurs, but it is especially difficult when the affected person is only in their 40s. Marie Williams, winner of the 2013 Finch Memoir Prize for her book Green Vanilla Tea, tells the story of her husband, Dominic, his journey with dementia, and how her family dealt with the Green Goblin, as they called the illness.' (Publication abstract)

'Green Vanilla Tea is a story of compassion and courage in the face of a deadly and little understood illness. Above all, it is a love story.

Marie Williams watches helplessly as an undiagnosable condition debilitates her husband, Dominic, in both body and mind. As the condition develops, the normally devoted family man and loving partner seems to disappear beneath an expressionless face and a relentless desire to walk and walk and walk at all hours of the day and night.

In a compelling story that spans both joy and sadness, Marie Williams writes about the bonds in her family, her sons’ love for their father, the spirit that sustains them all during the most testing of experiences and about the struggle they faced in dealing with the inexplicable.' (Publisher's blurb)