Helene Hanff is an outspoken and energetic writer based in New York. Frank Doel, a rather more restrained Englishman working in an antique booksellers in London.
84, Charing Cross Road is the address of the treasure trove of rare books uncovered by Hanff with her first letter to Marks and Co. Little does she know that her letter will furnish not only the literary volume she is searching for, but also a friendship stretching across a twenty year period in the lives of herself and Frank.
Humorous in places, always touching, this book is the collection of letters which travelled between Helene and Frank from 1949 until Frank's death in 1969.
Through their correspondence, we as readers become onlookers to their growing friendship. their letters illustrate with eloquence but enormous warmth, the social and cultural differences between the worlds in which they are living.