A woman who bought a second-hand book while on holiday has helped return it to the family of its original owner more than 50 years later. Nicola Lomax, from Ramsbottom in Lancashire, spotted the copy of The House of the Pelican by Elisabeth Kyle in a charity shop in Keswick, Cumbria, while on a break in the Lake District. She said she was drawn in by the book's cover and picked it up almost immediately. When she opened the book, she discovered an inscription inside with the name Donna Priday and a date from 1971, linking it to Dame Hannah Rogers School in Ivybridge, Devon. "It was literally on the shelf for five seconds and I grabbed it. The cover just intrigued me," said Lomax. "I opened it up and all the writing in it was from Donna who owned the book." Curious about how a book inscribed in Devon had ended up hundreds of miles away in Cumbria, Lomax decided to look into its history. "My husband said, 'I wonder what the story is and why a book from Devon has ended up in a charity shop in Keswick'," she said. She posted a message on a Facebook page in Ivybridge asking if anyone recognised the name inside the book and was contacted by a friend of the family, who explained Donna had
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A woman who bought a second-hand book while on holiday has helped return it to the family of its original owner more than 50 years later. Nicola Lomax, from Ramsbottom in Lancashire, spotted the copy of The House of the Pelican by…
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A woman who bought a second-hand book while on holiday has helped return it to the family of its original owner more than 50 years later. Nicola Lomax, from Ramsbottom in Lancashire, spotted the copy of The House of the…
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A woman who bought a second-hand book while on holiday has helped return it to the family of its original owner more than 50 years later. Nicola Lomax, from Ramsbottom in Lancashire, spotted the copy of The House of the Pelican by…
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