An English book collector was left in shock after he found his wife’s 50-year-old handwritten notes in a novel he bought from a charity shop.
According to BBC, a man from Hockley, Essex, was "completely gobsmacked" after seeing his wife’s childhood handwritten notes and sketches on an Enid Blyton novel he bought from a thrift shop.
Steve Mills, who has around 50 novels of the English children's writer, was rearranging his collection when he discovered that one of the books, The Naughty Girl Again, contains handwritten messages from his wife, Karen.
He said, “I kept rereading it and thought, 'This cannot be, surely?' I opened the front cover, and I was shocked to see my brother-in-law's name in it."
"It included an address that I'd heard my wife mention, and I just couldn't believe it,” talking about his wife, he added, “She was equally shocked." It was actually quite a cute thing to look at."
Surprisingly, when they looked at other novels on the shelf, they found that two other books also had annotations by his 60-year-old wife.
“We both sat there really not quite sure how to handle it because this was just extraordinary. They look nice on the shelf, and it gives me a nice warm feeling to know I've got them,” he expressed.
Mills’ mother-in-law donated the book back in 1970, which the 67-year-old bought unknowingly in Rayleigh, a town more than 160 miles (257 km) away from the place where his wife’s mother gave it away.
