A library in Athlone, Ireland, finally received an overdue book - 53 years after it should have been returned.Images released by Westmeath Libraries show the copy of the novel ‘Down All the Days’ by ‘My Left Foot’ author Christy Brown, with a stamped return date of September 10, 1971.Westmeath Libraries told Storyful the book was handed in on November 14 by a woman who said she had a “slightly overdue” library book found in an apartment in London.“Good thing we don’t do late fines anymore,” Westmeath Libraries
said on Facebook.“The book has been returned in great condition, and
Westmeath Libraries will always welcome long-lost books back into the fold,” senior executive librarian Paula O’Dornan said. Credit: Westmeath Libraries via Storyful