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84 Charing Cross Road
On sale
3rd October 2002
Price: £8.99
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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Reviews
A lovely new edition of this classic title
Unmitigated delight from cover to cover
A unique, throat-lumping, side-splitting treasure
A real-life love story . . . A timeless period piece. Do read it
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
Unmitigated delight from cover to cover
A must for anyone who reads - the correspondence between book lover Helen Hanff and Messers Marks & Cross of Charing Cross Road has been reissued
A lovely new edition of this classic title
A real-life love story . . . A timeless period piece. Do read it
A must for anyone who reads - the correspondence between book lover Helen Hanff and Messers Marks & Cross of Charing Cross Road has been reissued.
[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
