A GRANDMOTHER from Inverclyde has shown she has the write stuff - after become a first-time author at the age of 76.
Senior citizen Dorothy Holliday is opening a whole new chapter in her life after putting her work into print to help two good causes.
She has published her first book - called Blast From the Past - in aid of two charities.
The book is based on her own life and times and it is already proving to be a real page-turner, with copies flying off the shelves.
Dorothy, who lives in Wemyss Bay with her husband Charlie, has based the new book on her own experiences and says it has fulfilled a childhood ambition.
She said: "I was born in 1942 in Glasgow during the war and the book is based on my life up to 1963."
Dorothy is supporting two charities close to her heart - Crohn's UK and a charity which supports children with the respiratory condition primary ciliary dyskinesia, or PCD.
She held a launch of the book at her daughter's house in Skelmorlie on Saturday with family and friends attending the bash.
Dorothy, a retired home help, has two children and two grandchildren and has already sold 100 copies of the book raising £1,000 for charity.
She said: "I always knew there was a book to write from the day I left school."
If anyone would like to buy a copy of the book they should call Dorothy on 520845.
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