A TRUE STORY THAT HAS TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF THOUSANDS 'Unmitigated delight from cover to cover' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A real-life love story . . . A timeless period piece. Do read it' WALL STREET JOURNAL 'Beguile an hour of your time and put you in tune with mankind' NEW YORK TIMES This charming classic, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspondence between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London. Through the years, though never meeting and separated both geographically and culturally, they share a winsome, sentimental friendship based on their common love for books. Their relationship, captured so acutely in these letters, is one that will grab your heart and not let go.
84, Charing Cross Road is an absolutely enthralling true story of friendship and a shared love of books, which has been retold through a series of letters that were written between 1949 and 1968. Helene Hanff was an American writer who, upon one day seeing an advertisement by Marks & Co. Booksellers in London, contacts them and asks them to send her some specific books. This marks the beginning of the friendship between Helene and Frank Doel. The friendship soon expands to the exchange of bea...