I came across a newly re-printed copy of Helene Hanff's "84 Charing Cross Road" which I enjoyed re-reading.
Googling her I found an obituary in the Independent of 14 April 97 by James Roose-Evans. In it he mentions that Helene told him about a community of Benedictine Nuns in Worcester, England, who placed their single borrowed copy of '84 Charing Cross Road' under a glass case and gave an American nun the honour of turning over one page every day, so that the whole community could read it at the same time.
This made me smile!
I wonder if that community of nuns is still there today, reading their way through the Harry Potter books one page per day?
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