84, Charing Cross Road
"Those who have read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a novel comprised of only letters between the characters, will see how much that best-seller owes 84, Charing Cross Road." -- Medium.com
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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this book is so warm and comfy with an underlying heartbreak that comes with the death of good friends
This one-hour read was really so enjoyable.
In 1949, writer Helene Hanff sees an ad for a London bookstore in the Saturday Review of Literature. The books she has been looking for in New York are either rare, expensive editions or "grimy marked-up schoolboy copies," so she inquires of this Marks & Co, at 84, Charing Cross Road, London, as to their availability.
Reading the 20-year correspondence that follows felt almost like eavesdropping. Helene develops a corresponding relationship with most everyone at Marks & Co., even some of the employees' family members. The 20-year relationship covers the years after the war, the coronation of Queen Elizabeth, the Beatles, and other momentous events in history.
In 1949, writer Helene Hanff sees an ad for a London bookstore in the Saturday Review of Literature. The books she has been looking for in New York are either rare, expensive editions or "grimy marked-up schoolboy copies," so she inquires of this Marks & Co, at 84, Charing Cross Road, London, as to their availability.
Reading the 20-year correspondence that follows felt almost like eavesdropping. Helene develops a corresponding relationship with most everyone at Marks & Co., even some of the employees' family members. The 20-year relationship covers the years after the war, the coronation of Queen Elizabeth, the Beatles, and other momentous events in history.
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.
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