Hazel and the Snails Celebrating the work and legacy

Celebrating the work and legacy of a great New Zealand architect

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loving and layered

From his first entanglement with a cow in ketosis in Canterbury to a beagle in heart failure in Newfoundland

history is everywhere here despite its recent gentrification

Hazel and the Snails Celebrating the work and legacyA 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