Short (90 short pages), very charming. In 1949, Helene Hanff writes off to a London anitquarian bookseller looking for something she cannot find in quality in New York City. She doesn't have much money, but loves books and cannot believe the value she gets from England. The correspondence grows to include personal affairs, instigated by Hanff's holiday food parcel gifts to the London staff, and endures 20 years.

Hanff finally makes the trip to London, where she is given celebrity treatment.

In this memoir, Hanff takes us through times of obscurity, poverty, comparative success, the relationship with Marks & Co. (from 84, Charing Cross Road), ending up with 84's successes and fame. The title has to do with Hanff's ackowledged debt to Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch. Very nice.