Raising Granny

By Matthew James Hammett

She's not dead. She's just very, very still.

When fifteen-year-old Eloisa Stewart finds her tyrant of a granny dead in her armchair, she does what any sensible orphan would do. She pushes the corners of Granny's mouth up into a smile.

It sticks.

Report the death, and Eloisa goes back into care and loses the council bungalow. Keep quiet for six months until her sixteenth birthday, and she's free. How hard can it be?

Very. There's a nosy neighbour who brings lemon drizzle every Thursday, a social worker who wants a Zoom call, a pug with designs on Granny's foot, and a mobility scooter that keeps going viral. Eloisa and her morbidly well-informed best friend Cal are about to find out that the whole of Largs has never paid Agnes Stewart so much attention as it does now she's dead.

Laugh-out-loud, filthy and unexpectedly heartbreaking, Raising Granny is a dark comedy with a big Scottish heart.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HQKNGDLY
• ISBN13: 9798140238681
• Release Date: November 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"