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Your First Grandchild — The Life Lessons Collection

The Life Lessons Collection

Your First Grandchild

Getting Through the Best Kind of Life-Changing Day

by William “Billy” Brown

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About the book

A quiet reckoning, written plainly

The one unreservedly joyful book in the whole collection, written entirely from lived experience. Covers the phone call you never forget, suddenly saying yes to everything you’d have refused as a younger parent, and the surprising way a grandchild reorders your entire sense of legacy.

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Chapter One

From the opening pages

This is the rare book in this whole series that doesn’t need an honest disclaimer about lived experience. I’ve been a grandfather for a good while now, and I can tell you plainly: nothing on this list of life lessons rearranged my sense of what actually matters quite as thoroughly, or as quickly, as the day I first held a grandchild.

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About the author

William “Billy” Brown

William “Billy” Brown
Billy, at home in Scotland

Billy is a Scottish engineer, author and musician who spent more than thirty years working around the world before he ever thought of himself as a writer.

He writes from lived experience rather than theory — about work, love, distance, and the quieter lessons a working life hands over.