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Tens of thousands of fans devour my erotic fiction...but I don't want mum and dad reading it!
Many thousands of people have read her raunchy fiction as it took the literary world by storm.
But two people who haven't read Sophie Gravia's best selling books are her parents – after she banned them from doing so.
The author, whose titles include A Glasgow Kiss and Hot Girl Summer, said: 'I don't allow my mum and dad to read the books.
'They are so proud and they tell everyone about the books, but I am like: 'Please, do not read them.''
It was during the pandemic that the nurse, from Bellshill in Lanarkshire, self-published her debut novel online.
'Literally overnight it was number one on the Amazon charts. It just completely blew up,' she said. And this week she released her fifth book, The Dicktionary Club, based on the real-life phenomenon where women meet in groups on social media to discuss whether they are dating the same man.
Ms Gravia, a renal nurse for ten years, is currently on a career break but plans to return to the profession.
During the pandemic the mother-of-two had to attend mandatory wellness sessions designed to offer a release from the pressures of the health crisis.
Ms Gravia, 33, told BBC Scotland: 'Everyone else had all these great things they were doing in their spare time, while I was using it to lie on the couch watching Netflix most nights.
'Then I said to myself 'look, let's get a grip here', and I started writing.
'I never thought I was good enough at it, but wanted to do something
for myself.'
It would lead to A Glasgow Kiss, about trainee nurse Zara Smith's dating escapades. She said: 'I just took the worst dating stories I had heard from my friends and the girls in the staffroom. There are a couple of my own in there too.'
It is now being made into a TV series by BBC Studios.
Ms Gravia's literary success comes amid a long-time love of writing. As a teenager she considered a career in journalism but ended up following her parents into nursing.
