84 Charing Cross Road

This is the true tale of a delightfully reticent love affair between Miss Helene Hanff of New York and Messrs Marks and Co, sellers of rare and secondhand books, at 84 Charing Cross Road, London. For twenty years this outspoken New York writer and Frank Doel, a rather more restrained London bookseller, carry on an increasingly touching correspondence to the point where, in early December 1949, Helene is suddenly worried that the six-pound ham she's sent off to augment British rations will arrive in a kosher office. 

Soon they are sharing more personal news about Frank's family and Hanff's career. 

Through the years, though never meeting and separated both geographically and culturally, they share a winsome, sentimental friendship based on their common love for books.