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Inspiring the next GENERATION

‘I decided to leave something for my children’

‘I spent my last wage packet on a writing retreat’

Joan Haig, 41, lives near Peebles, in the Scottish Borders, with her husband and two sons, who are aged 12 and 10.

Two things made me decide to write a book; my Aunt Lilian was diagnosed with dementia and was unable to write the story she’d always dreamed of, and then I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer at 36.

Just like Aunt Lilian, I’d always wanted to be a writer, and

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