I am a big fan of epistolary novels (Ella Minnow Pea, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society), so when a librarian friend recommended "84, Charing Cross Road" by Helene Hanff, I took the book home that same day. It is a short book, and I think I read it in little more than an hour. It was a feeling of success that I finally finished a book in one sitting! I can't imagine not reading it in one sitting -- I wanted to follow this lovely relationship from start to finish from the moment I opened the book.

The Daily Telegraph says: One of the subtlest, sharpest, most moving relationships ever formed between pen pals... A must for anyone who reads...the correspondence between book lover Helen Hanff and Messers Marks & Cross of Charing Cross Road.