There are very few novels which deal with the issues of contemporary medical ethics in the lively and intensely readable way which Hazel McHaffie's books do. She uses her undoubted skill as a storyteller to weave tales of moral quandary, showing us with subtlety and sympathy how we might tackle some of the ethical issues which modern medicine has thrown up. She has demonstrated that hard cases make good reading.

Alexander McCall Smith

From Tolstoy to Cronin, writers have raided medicine in search of the raw material of literature. How appropriate that Hazel McHaffie should be repaying the compliment by using fiction to help us grapple with the ethical dilemmas so often and so effortlessly conjured up by modern medicine.

Geoff Watts

Hazel McHaffie illuminates the novel moral complexities of the modern world with dramatic insight ... a great read.

James Le Fanu

McHaffie accomplishes something of great value for the reader … she exposes the potential for authenticity within intimate human relationships. This is a luminous accomplishment.

The Lancet

McHaffie’s books are skillfully written to bring out the complex ethical issues that we as doctors, nurses, patients, or relatives may face in dealing with difficult issues.

British Medical Journal

Hazel McHaffie, already an award winning author, has woven together authentic clinical details and ethical dilemmas with a lightness of touch that transports the reader effortlessly into the world of scientific medicine… these novels are accessible and compelling and will be enjoyed by general readers as much as by philosophers and health professionals.

Brian Hurwitz

[The author] has woven and moulded her extensive knowledge of ethics, moral dilemmas and clinical concerns with great skill into real life, everyday, stories of drama and tragedy.

Infant

This heart-rending book about a young journalist who has all to live for but is dying from Motor Neurone Disease, is written with a rare understanding of the conflicts and horrors of such a death. Those who read it will understand why the law needs to be changed to allow assisted dying as an option for those whose quality of life has disintegrated and who wish to end their unbearable suffering.

Lord Joffe

This is an immensely sensitive and thoughtful book. It tackles in raw and compelling detail the deterioration caused by degenerative disease, while at the same time exploring the ethical issues surrounding assisted dying. The characters are real and attractive; their pain almost tangible. This is an astonishingly authentic-feeling insight with a highly articulate and intelligent central character.

Sheila McLean

Hazel McHaffie interweaves a scintillating web of medical ethics reflections into her exciting whodunnit. Highly recommended both for the whodunnit and for the reflections.

Raanan Gillon

I enjoyed Vacant Possession. What a tangled web! Enough angles to keep even the best ethical mind going for a week or two.

Geoff Watts

...medical-ethical-romantic - an entirely new genre for fiction and an absorbing and fascinating one too.

Fay Weldon

These two books are outrageous and you must buy them at once… Quite how the author manages to include donor insemination, child abuse, infertility stigma, genetics, surrogacy, PGD, mental illness and medical ethics into two narratively linked romantic tragedies I am not literary enough to know, but she does so in a readable and uncontrived way.

Journal of Fertility Counselling