Canberra's biggest Mills and Boon fan

The Canberra Times

Doreen Watt has 44,000 Mills and Boons romance paperback neatly arranged in her Canberra home. Oh, and 3000 hardbacks in the garage. She loves that each book has a happy ending.

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00:00My books that I have for sale start up at the top with author's name starting with A,

00:07down that bookcase, down this one, around the corner, and two more bookcases full,

00:20and then into the back room with three more bookcases.

00:30I have 3,000 hardback Mills and Burns in the garage, not enough room to put them here.

00:44Nine authors in the day, yes. I started collecting Mills and Burns

00:50um starting from about 1974 or 5 and they've come all the way down here

01:01and then continue for another five bookcases,

01:05and they're all double banked. There's another row behind each one of these

01:09and they're trying to fill that collection. I'm still looking for about 80 books to fill

01:19this collection of old numbers. This is what started my collection. I saw the movie in

01:28Canberra called Leopard in the Snow and noticed at the end that in the credits it said Mills and

01:35Burns book, so I decided I've got to read that. So I went looking for it at all the second-hand

01:42bookshops and it took a couple of years but I finally found a copy of it. I love the way

01:49Mills and Burns always have a happy ending. There might be lots of conflict on the way

01:55but in the end they always end up together and happy.

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