84 Charing Cross Road
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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.
'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.
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- Published: Oct 03 2002
- Pages: 240
- 128 x 200mm
- ISBN: 9781860498503
Press Reviews
- Good Book Guide
A lovely new edition of this classic title
- Daily Express
A must for anyone who reads - the correspondence between book lover Helen Hanff and Messers Marks & Cross of Charing Cross Road has been reissued
- Wall Street Journal
A real-life love story . . . A timeless period piece. Do read it
- Daily Telegraph
Unmitigated delight from cover to cover
- Medium.com
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 bestseller owes 84, Charing Cross Road
- New York Times
[84, Charing Cross Road] will beguile an hour of your time and put you in tune with mankind . . . will provide an emollient for the spirit and a sheath for the exposed nerve
- San Francisco Examiner
A unique, throat-lumping, side-splitting treasure
- Good Book Guide
A lovely new edition of this classic title
- Daily Express
A must for anyone who reads - the correspondence between book lover Helen Hanff and Messers Marks & Cross of Charing Cross Road has been reissued.
- DAILY TELEGRAPH
Unmitigated delight from cover to cover
- WALL STREET JOURNAL
A real-life love story . . . A timeless period piece. Do read it