Ebook: The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
Author: Hanff Helene
- Tags: Americans--Travel, Americans--Travel--England, Booksellers and bookselling, Booksellers and bookselling--England, Travel, Women authors American, Women authors American--20th century--Biography, Biography, Fiction, Biographies, Women authors American -- 20th century -- Biography, Booksellers and bookselling -- England, Americans -- Travel -- England, London (England) -- Description and travel, England -- Description and travel, Americans -- Travel, England, England -- London
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- City: New York;England;London;London (England
- Language: English
- epub
Nancy Mitford meets Nora Ephron in the pages of The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, Helene Hanff's delightful travelogue about her "bucket list" trip to London
When devoted Anglophile Helene Hanff is invited to London for the English publication of 84, Charing Cross Road—in which she shares two decades of correspondence with Frank Doel, a British bookseller who became a dear friend—she can hardly believe her luck. Frank is no longer alive, but his widow and daughter, along with enthusiastic British fans from all walks of life, embrace Helene as an honored guest. Eager hosts, including a famous actress and a retired colonel, sweep her up in a whirlwind of plays and dinners, trips to Harrod's, and wild jaunts to their favorite corners of the countryside.
A New Yorker who isn't afraid to speak her mind, Helene Hanff delivers an outsider's funny yet fabulous portrait of idiosyncratic Britain at its best. And whether she is walking across the Oxford University...