84 Charing Cross Road

Author: Helene Hanff

Biography: general

Published on 4 November 2010 by Little, Brown Book Group (Sphere) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Virago Modern Classics' series.

Paperback | 240 pages
176 x 106 x 16 | 132g

'Such a delightful reading experience' Virginia Evans, bestselling author of The Correspondent, winner of the Women's Prize 2026'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 TIMESThis 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.