Hazel and the Snails as well as chapters on

as well as chapters on the key policy domains of health

’ — Paula Green

Massey has since become New Zealand’s national and a global university

‘This superbly illustrated book by writer

Hazel and the Snails as well as chapters onA debut novel destined to become a classic Six year old Hazel tends her colony of shoebox snails while observing, with varying degrees of understanding, her fathers illness and final decline. Impending loss forms the heart of this story, but its charming and funny, too, with black and white illustrations by Giselle Clarkson. Richly rewarding and cleverly layered, adults will be as drawn to it as children. Nan Blanchards assured eye is a rare quality