A bookshop owner who discovered the letter was moved to tears when he read it. Photo / 123RF
Knowing she was dying, a mother wrote a heart-rending farewell letter to her young daughter and tucked it inside a book.
She hoped her little girl would one day find comfort in knowing her mum was still watching over her after going to "live with the angels".
But the letter
was never found by the youngster. Fifteen years on, it has been discovered - still hidden inside the book - in a second-hand bookshop.
Owner Gordon Draper unearthed the emotional goodbye, along with a photograph of the mother and her daughter, while sorting through a pile of old tomes. He is now trying to find the girl to whom the note was addressed. In the letter, which was inside a fragile envelope, the mother refers to her daughter Bethany as 'my little treasure'.
She says: "My chest was very poorly and I had an operation to make it better but it didn't work. I will always be in the sky make sure you are alright and watching over you so when you see a bright star like in the nursery rhyme Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, that's me."
