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© Paul Reid Inspired by her day job as a care home operations manager, Jan McGavin from Dundee has published her debut novel. It is a dream come true for Jan – combining much-needed disability representation with the magical world of fantasy fiction. While working for Kennedy Care Group, which has care homes across Angus, Fife and Aberdeenshire, Jan wrote the novel The Stone Dragon. It focuses on the importance of celebrating individuality and accepting our unique differences, as well as promoting representation of disability in literature. The dragon with a difference Aimed at older child...

AN IRVINE woman has published her first book marking the end of a 15-year process. Jan McGavin, 60, recently released The Stone Dragon – the first of a trilogy – inspired by her years of working with people in the care sector. Jan is currently an operations manager with a care home organisation and previously worked at an autism centre in Kilbirnie. She told the Times that the stories of those she met inspired the plot, adding: “I have been in the care industry for 30 years and it is a very pressured and stressful job so you need something to provide escapism. “I have come a...