This memoir tells the remarkable story of how Helene Hanff came to write 84, Charing Cross Road , and how its success changed her. -- Kirkus Reviews. we exult right along with her. . . -- San Francisco Chronicle Hanff\'s charm is such that when she exults .
A Delightful companion for the odd hour. . . easy and assured . . . -- Betty Rollin A potpourri .
Reading Helene Hanff\'s book is like making a new friend -- a charming, wise, and funny one.
Hanff pays her debt to her mentor and shares her joyous adventures with her many fans.
Thus began a correspondence that became an enormously popular book, play, television production, and movie, and that finally led to the trip to England -- and a visit to Q\'s study -- that she recounts in this exuberant memoir.
She devoured Q\'s book, and, wanting to read all the Books he recommended, began to order them from a small store in London at 84, Charing Cross Road.
Hanff recalls her serendipitous discovery of a volume of lectures by a Cambridge don, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.
This memoir tells the remarkable story of how Helene Hanff came to write 84, Charing Cross Road , and how its success changed her
