84, Charing Cross Road
“Such a delightful reading experience . . . During Covid . . . everything was so chaotic and weird and depressing and lonely, and that book felt like the antidote to all of that.” —Virginia Evans, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Correspondent, on The New York Times Book Review podcast
A heartwarming love story about people who love books for readers who love books
This funny, poignant, classic love story unfolds through a series of letters between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London at 84, Charing Cross Road. Through the years, though never meeting and separated both geographically and culturally, they share a charming, sentimental friendship based on their common love for books. Discover the relationship that has touched the hearts of thousands of readers around the world, and was the basis for a film starring Anthony Hopkins and Anne Bancroft.
A heartwarming love story about people who love books for readers who love books
This funny, poignant, classic love story unfolds through a series of letters between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London at 84, Charing Cross Road. Through the years, though never meeting and separated both geographically and culturally, they share a charming, sentimental friendship based on their common love for books. Discover the relationship that has touched the hearts of thousands of readers around the world, and was the basis for a film starring Anthony Hopkins and Anne Bancroft.
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Charming
Always meant to read this and so glad I finally did! You can't help but fall in love with Helene, and all her correspondents at the bookstore.
Always meant to read this and so glad I finally did! You can't help but fall in love with Helene, and all her correspondents at the bookstore.
This book was even more delightful than I was promised.
How can you describe perfection? Throughout the entire book, I smiled at each page and laughed out loud at so many others.
I started & finished it today after many, many recommendations from my book club. After I was finished, there's a really good chance that I sat just hugging the book for a solid 5 minutes...silently.
My mom would have adored this book.*
Now, off to read the sequel and not sleep the rest of the night.
*edited to add: While reading this book, I wished my mom was still alive so that I could get this book for her for Christmas. While scrolling through all of my GR friends who read & rated it, I'm so very happy to see that she had already read & LOVED it back in 2011. *sigh* I'm so glad...
How can you describe perfection? Throughout the entire book, I smiled at each page and laughed out loud at so many others.
I started & finished it today after many, many recommendations from my book club. After I was finished, there's a really good chance that I sat just hugging the book for a solid 5 minutes...silently.
My mom would have adored this book.*
Now, off to read the sequel and not sleep the rest of the night.
*edited to add: While reading this book, I wished my mom was still alive so that I could get this book for her for Christmas. While scrolling through all of my GR friends who read & rated it, I'm so very happy to see that she had already read & LOVED it back in 2011. *sigh* I'm so glad...
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