Bollix Kathleen DuVal Doidge has written an immensely

Doidge has written an immensely moving

Stacy McAnulty channels the voice of Mars in this next celestial "autobiography" in the Our Universe series

and piercingly intelligent essay collection from one of our finest contemporary writers

Full of grief

and is illustrated with 230 colour photographs

Bollix Kathleen DuVal Doidge has written an immenselyNorthern Irish born, Kiwi by choice, Nics lived through cancer, the death of her three year old daughter Kenzie, Parkinsons, and a heart transplant yet, somehow, she still gets up swinging. Out of that chaos came Kenzies Gift, the charity she founded to help children and young people whose parent or sibling has died or is seriously ill. Two decades on, its supported thousands across New Zealand. Bollix is Nics no nonsense and, at times, darkly funny