Misplaced novel found while tidying up

This, folks, is why keeping your house clean can never hurt:

An 89-year-old Dutch novelist has stumbled on a pot-boiler she wrote that had been lost for decades, and plans to publish it later this year.

Hella Haasse’s “Sterrenjacht” (“Hunt for the Stars”) was published as a serial in a newspaper in 1950, but the manuscript was lost.

However, she saved clippings of each installment and recently found them among an “incredible pile of paper.”

Full story on Reuters.

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