84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
I first read 84, Charing Cross Road back in the 70s. It is timeless. I came across this paperback and couldn't resist reading again. It is a beautiful, classic memoir of friendship and bibliophilia, twenty years of correspondence between Helene Hanff, an American writer in New York, and Marks & Co. antiquarian booksellers in Charing Cross Road, London where Frank Doel became her main correspondent.
Letters, books and quips crossed the ocean from 1949 until 1969 and a friendship flourished as Marks & Co. supplied the rare editions Helene was unable to find in New York.
84, Charing Cross Road is combined here with its delightful sequel The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, a diary kept by Helene when she finally made the trip to London.
This is a book for all book lovers - an unmitigated delight.
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