THE story of blind writer Trish Vickers and her dying wish to see her work published has touched the hearts of people all around the world.

After last week’s story about how Trish’s family were in a race against time to get her novel published before she died, the offers of help have been pouring in.

Diabetic Trish, who went blind aged 52, became an internet sensation after the story of police forensics experts helping recover her ‘disappearing’ novel went worldwide in April 2012.

She had written pages and pages of it in ballpoint pen before realising it had run out. The family turned to police forensics experts who managed to retrieve it.

Now Trish, 64, from Charmouth, has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and has little time left and her family and friends want to fulfill her wish to hold her novel Grannifer’s Legacy in her hands before she dies.

Daughter Heidi said: “I was really surprised how many offers of help we had.

“We set up a justgiving page to get £1,000 funding for the publishing and I wasn’t really expecting anything but we are already on 60 per cent and it has only been a few days. We even had a donation from Australia today, from someone we don’t know.

“I feel really happy and blessed about that and it shows that people care.

“Mum is really pleased too. I read all the donation comments to her and she thinks it is really wonderful.

“We have had some interest and hopefully something will come of it but I think it will have to be all about self-publishing because we don’t have the time to get a publisher to do it.

“To actually get it published through a publisher takes time and mum doesn’t have that.

“She would just love to hold the book in her hands. All this has definitely made her feel humbled, the love that she was receiving has made her feel better and she is really excited about the prospect of actually having it published.”

Bridport Blind Club volunteer and friend Trevor Chambers, who has written the foreword to the book, said the response had been overwhelming.

He said: “There has been a huge response from published authors, from Kingston University, from publishers and from people with expertise in the area of book publishing and even an offer to produce an audio book “It has been amazing.

“We have to select who is going to produce the book and whether they can do it quickly enough.

“We have been overwhelmed and Facebook has gone mad. and the offers are still coming in.

“We want to put the book in her hands and say ‘here it is Trish, it exists’.”

The fundraising page can be found at justgiving.com/crowdfunding/ Plea-to-publish