Helene Hanff: 84 Charing Cross Road

[Mirabell]

There are enough of these issues in the book, though, that one marvels at the fact that this is so light and enjoyable a read. It is certainly a book that I will reread a few times. If you give this book the time it needs, I guarantee you?ll laugh, you?ll be moved, and you will be cursing that woman while you run to the retailer of your own choice to compile a list of your own with English books you forgot you wanted. And all of this in under a hundred pages. If that isn?t a miracle, I don?t know what is.

Storyseller: Helene Hanff’s ?84 Charing Cross Road? shigekuni.

I found out there's a movie on this. Will look it up asap.

[Flower]

If I remember correctly then the film has Anthony Hopkins and Anne Bancoff in the leading roles.

[titania7]

Flower, you are right. I saw the film a number of years ago, and Anthony Hopkins and Anne Bancroft play the two leads. The movie was actually based on both Helene Hanff's book and the play adapted from the book.

Your enthusiasm for 84 Charing Cross Road is inspirational, M. I'm quite certain Hanff's book is even better than the film adaptation, which, I might add, I deeply cherished.

yours,
Titania

[SilverSeason]

I have fond memories of the book. It inspired me to visit Charing Cross Road on my first trip to London.