Category:Hazel McHaffie

Hazel McHaffie likes change. Professionally she has evolved several times - nurse and midwife, PhD graduate, research fellow, Deputy Director of Research in the Institute of Medical Ethics, creative writing student, novelist. Her CV includes 100 published papers and books in academic journals plus entries in Peoples Friend and Good Housekeeping. She’s been rejected by top literary agents but won a prestigious literary prize: British Medical Association Medical Book of the Year (2002). She morphed into a novelist in order to make medical ethics exciting and accessible to general readers. Her fifth novel, Right to Die, was shortlisted for the BMA Popular Medicine prize in 2008; Inside of Me is her ninth published work of fiction. In her former life she lectured to hundreds around the world, but she also loves to chat to small groups in bookclubs and libraries. Married with two grown up children and four grandchildren, life is never dull. Although she grew up in beautiful Cornwall, England, she’s lived in equally stunning Scotland for most of her life.