'Tattered' notebook reveals Mills and Boon editor's 'favourite steamy lines'

Researchers have found a tattered notebook which reveals the most favourite lines picked out by the editors of Mills and Boon from their steamy romance novels.

The hardback book, which found in the archive acquired by the University of Reading in 2011 comprising close to 60 boxes of documents, has a collection of some of the steamier and bizarre sentences from the novels.

Some of the lines includes "out of the bedroom, like an avenging sitting hen" and "Grant sat down on the edge of the bed, a man with a firm grip on himself," the Independent reported.

Judith Watts, a PhD researcher in the University of Reading's Mills and Boon archive said that the material from the manuscripts was taken rather mischievously by the publishers and editors and the notebook was for their own amusement.

The book titled 'Boon Mots: Anthology of Artless Extracts', which has phrases cut out of submitted manuscripts, offers a unique glimpse into the history and success of one of the most-loved and successful series of romantic fiction books and includes letters between the publisher and its authors.