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.

*Review round-ups in women's magazines *To be featured on the Virago web-site *Reading copies available

About the Author

Helene Hanff (1916-1997) was an American writer. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she is best known as the author of the book 84 Charing Cross Road, which became the basis for a play, teleplay and film of the same name.

Her career, which saw her move from writing unproduced plays to helping create some of the earliest television dramas to becoming a kind of professional New Yorker, goes far beyond the charm of that one book. She called her 1961 memoir Underfoot in Show Business, and it chronicled the struggle of an ambitious young playwright to make it in the world of New York theatre in the 1940s and 1950s. She wrote letters all her life as well as being the author of many books for children.

Reviews
A lovely new edition of this classic title * Good Book Guide *
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 Express *
A real-life love story . . . A timeless period piece. Do read it * Wall Street Journal *
Unmitigated delight from cover to cover * Daily Telegraph *
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 * Medium.com *
[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 * New York Times *
A unique, throat-lumping, side-splitting treasure * San Francisco Examiner *
A lovely new edition of this classic title * Good Book Guide *
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 Express *
Unmitigated delight from cover to cover * DAILY TELEGRAPH *
A real-life love story . . . A timeless period piece. Do read it * WALL STREET JOURNAL *



Book Information
ISBN 9781860498503
Author Helene Hanff
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Virago Press Ltd
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Weight(grams) 194g
Dimensions(mm) 128mm * 200mm * 16mm