Lovely, warm little collection of letters between an American writer and a British bookseller. Hanff, on a budget and unwilling to traipse endlessly through the streets of New York looking for obscure titles in second-hand shops, starts sending orders to a bookshop in London. Frank Doel, her correspondent, has quite by chance the same sort of humour and the two begin a sort of book-based penpal friendship - one that expands to Doel's family and workmates as Banff begins to send parcels of food to the bookshop, as they're all living under rationing following the war. The correspondence goes on for some decades, and sadly they never actually meet in person, but it's still the story of two very kind people who form an unlikely friendship and take delight in it.