![]() However, when she discovers that England is still under heavy post-war rationing, she ups the ante and begins to send boxes and boxes of items available only on the black market in London. The entire bookshop comes to care for Helene and look forward to her correspondence. ![]() She has very specific taste, and he is able to find and send what she requests. Her correspondence is shockingly glib, informal, and playful with Frank Doel of Marks & Co Booksellers in London. Helene Hanff is a spitfire, to say the least. Their relationship, captured so acutely in these letters, is one that will grab your heart and not let go.Ī woman in post-WWII New York, with a penchant for non-fiction, becomes pen pals with a stoically formal British antiquarian bookseller 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. This 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. ![]()
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