The letters are filled with charm and a burgeoning friendship that results in gentle teasing (mostly from Miss Hanff).
It’s a correspondence that lasts some 20 years and ends up encompassing many other Marks & Co workers, Frank Doe’s wife and daughter and also one of his neighbours. So begins a correspondence based on a love of rare books between a funny, outspoken New York woman and the man from Marks & Co, Frank Doel – quieter, more reserved but with a decided sense of humour. Helene is a poor writer with a rather refined taste in books and the books she wants to buy are impossible to find in America. It is 1949 and Miss Helene Hanff of New York, America writes a letter to Marks & Co at 84 Charing Cross Road London, an ‘antiquarian’ bookshop that specialise in out of print books.
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