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NameSally
Date03-07-2010
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MessageWow. Lovely site. This book came as a bit of a shock for me, I've just read it. I worked at 120 Charing Cross Road (for a book chain) for some time and my husband worked at ninety something Charing Cross Road (in a picture framers) for many years in the late nineties and early noughties. We always thought this book was fiction! We were both asked many times by people where number 84 was and we told them it didn't exist as there is no number 84 today.

I always meant to read this book and I saw it in a bookshop in the city in the north of England I now live last night and bought it. I read it all in one sitting and was amazed to find Marks and Co was a real place and that I had walked past the site hundreds of times.

I adored the book and it is now down as a firm new favourite. Thanks for the site providing all this information as I still wasn't quite convinced it was all real until seeing this!

And thanks to the late Frank and Helene for providing such a little gem that was a real joy to read. Now off to read the Duchess of Bloomsbury!

Thanks


NameGail DeGeorge
Date22-05-2010
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MessageThank you so much for the work you've put into this site. I read both 84 Charing Cross Road and The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street as a teenager (I'm 53 now) and loved and remember both books.

I loved visiting this site and learning more about the people Helene Hanff brought to life in her book.


NameFiona Turnbull
Date05-05-2010
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MessageThanks for the lovely website. In 1989 I was working at the College of Saint Mary in Omaha, Nebraska when we were presented with the shop sign that hung outside Marks & Co. Someone from the Board of Directors at the college had met Helene Hanff on a plane trip and become friends with her. She apparently had the sign and gave it to him. The last time I saw it in 1996 it was still hanging in the lobby.


NameCarol Lamparter
Date20-04-2010
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Message84 Charing Cross Road is one of my favorite books. I have used the instructions for making Yorkshire Pudding which are in the book, many times! On a long-ago visit to London, my husband took my photo in front of the old store, which appeared to be just a vacated building at that time. But it felt like a sacred place! How wonderful of you to do this website. All the best.


NameM.T. Riggs
Date01-04-2010
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MessageWhat a delightful website --- keep it up!


NameAaron
Date14-03-2010
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MessageSteve,
As a repeat visitor and huge fan of Helene Hanff and 84 Charing Cross Road I want to thank you again for this site. One comment - I think you should consider adding an "About Me" section/link (and if there is one already I must have missed it) so visitors can have that information.

Cheerio!


NameJenny
Date13-03-2010
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MessageI love this small book <84 Charing Cross Road>, a thin book with such deep feelings.I always put it in my bag and read it time to time. The movie is great, but I still think the book is much more than the movie, there is something you have to think over and over with the simple words, and every time when you read it you'll find something old but new to you and it will make you can't help searching the gone but not faded things between the lines.I love British litrature, love everything in London, because you always can find what you are looking for. There is a small piece of fine art paper attached to the front page in Chinese version, it says, "If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road kiss it for me! I owe it so much." Some day,I will visit London, hope I still can find Marks & Co. in the atmosphere there.


NameStar
Date11-03-2010
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MessageLovely website! I went to London a couple of years ago and found that 84 was no more. So thank you for the photos and the history.

Every time I read Helene's books I want to go back to London again, press my nose against the glass of the bus window, and look at everything again as if it were the very first time. Helene Hanff is a kindred spirit to all of us who love London so much.


NameBruna
Date06-03-2010
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MessageHi ! well....I don't know what to write ( maybe some apologies for my bad English ...) but I have to say that I have seen "84-Charing Cross Road" with Ann Bancroft and I LOVED the movie ! I have discovered in some scenes and descriptions the same love I have for London. I have read also "The Princess of Bloomsbury Street" and it was a lovely book ! I will recommend to my friends to read Helene's books because her way to describe the various places and the feelings she felt during her visit to London, is superb! I am a lucky woman because I have some English friends and we often excange letters and packages with gifts and surprises , like Helene made with her Library's friends.
Helene was an american Lady with an English soul.
God bless her.


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