THERE’S A CURE FOR THIS, by Dr Emma Espiner (Penguin, $35), out on May 9.
“I didn’t know about kids eating dog food for breakfast.” There are many lines that stayed with me once I’d put this book down (after reading it cover to cover in less than 24 hours), but this is the one that won’t go away. I read that sentence three times, trying to visualise that in my head. I couldn’t. But somewhere in New Zealand, a first-world country, there are