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Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 Green Vanilla Tea
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'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)

Exhibitions

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Warriewood, Northern Beaches area, Sydney Northeastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Finch , 2013 .
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      Extent: 1vp.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 24 May 2013
      ISBN: 9781921462993

Works about this Work

Marie Williams Green Vanilla Tea Diane Hague , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Jessie Street National Women's Library Newsletter , February vol. 25 no. 1 2014; (p. 6)

— Review of Green Vanilla Tea Marie Williams , 2013 single work autobiography
Living with the Green Goblin Marie Williams , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: Good Reading , July 2013; (p. 47-49)

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)

Sorrows Alleviated by Small Triumphs Annemarie Jonson , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 31 August - 1 September 2013; (p. 24-25)

— Review of Green Vanilla Tea Marie Williams , 2013 single work autobiography ; The Miracle of Love : A Mother's Story of Grief, Hope and Acceptance Ondine Sherman , 2013 single work autobiography
Mum's Prize in Honour of Dearly Missed Olivia Clarke , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 29 May 2013; (p. 53)
Sorrows Alleviated by Small Triumphs Annemarie Jonson , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 31 August - 1 September 2013; (p. 24-25)

— Review of Green Vanilla Tea Marie Williams , 2013 single work autobiography ; The Miracle of Love : A Mother's Story of Grief, Hope and Acceptance Ondine Sherman , 2013 single work autobiography
Marie Williams Green Vanilla Tea Diane Hague , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Jessie Street National Women's Library Newsletter , February vol. 25 no. 1 2014; (p. 6)

— Review of Green Vanilla Tea Marie Williams , 2013 single work autobiography
Mum's Prize in Honour of Dearly Missed Olivia Clarke , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 29 May 2013; (p. 53)
Living with the Green Goblin Marie Williams , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: Good Reading , July 2013; (p. 47-49)

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)

Awards

2013 winner Finch Memoir Prize Prize: $10,000
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