アンソニー・ホプキンスとアン・バンクロフトの共演による映画『チャーリング･クロス街84番地』はレビュー者のお気に入りの映画の一つです。第二次世界大戦後の米国の女性作家と英国の古書店の責任者との手紙のやりとりを映画にした内容で、原作を読みたく、本書を入手しました。
　英国と米国の文化の差、また、戦争直後の英国と米国の状態などが興味深く読め、期待以上に楽しめました。人の暖かい心が感じられる作品で、多くの人に映画のDVDと一緒に楽しんで欲しいと思います。

Like many people I saw a movie first. Naturally due to media constraints, you expect certain amount of the book to be homogenized. So I wanted to read what was missing. To my amazement very little was missing or modified. I don't normally read this sort of book. So I was surprised at finding myself wanting more when it finished.

Also until I read the book I did not realize that Charing Cross Road was a real place. The whole book is based on a collection of correspondence between Helene Hanff, an avid book reader, and Frank Doel an agent for British bookseller.

My wife has taken this one step further and is collecting all the books that were mentioned in the correspondence. Some of these books appear to have been reprinted due to this publication.

If you can find it there is a book called “The Library of Helen Hanff.”
I wonder what became of all the other people described in the correspondents after the book.