"Beautifully done ... I really cannot recommend this book too vigorously" - The Sunday Telegraph

From the author of 84, Charing Cross Road comes another literary jewel of a memoir from Helene Hanff. This is a delightful account of her early days as a struggling writer on the edge of show business.

When Helene became an apprentice playwright with New York's prestigious Theatre Guild, she was high on the champagne of her hopes. What did she care about living chiefly on coffee in meagre bed-sitters when she could always borrow her best friend's best blouse for lunch with a producer, and was meeting awe-inspiring people? She was young, stage-struck and determined have fun.

Brought back into print after several decades in gorgeous hardback gift edition, Underfoot in Show Business is introduced by Helene's cousin Jean Hanff Korelitz, a New York Times best-selling novelist in her own right.