An edition of The marriage bureau (2017)

The marriage bureau

the true story of how two matchmakers arranged love in wartime London

First William Morrow edition.

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The marriage bureau
Penrose Halson, Penrose Halson
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An edition of The marriage bureau (2017)

The marriage bureau

the true story of how two matchmakers arranged love in wartime London

First William Morrow edition.

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"In the spring of 1939, with the Second World War looming, two determined twenty-four-year-olds, Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver, decided to open a marriage bureau. They found a tiny office on London's Bond Street and set about the delicate business of matchmaking. Drawing on the bureau's extensive archives, Penrose Halson--who many years later found herself the proprietor of the bureau--tells their story, and those of their clients."--Back cover.

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English
Pages
313

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Subjects

Dating services, Social life and customs, Mate selection, Marriage, History, Marriage, great britain, London (england), social life and customs

People

Mary Oliver, Heather Jenner

Places

England, London, London (England)

Times

20th century

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The marriage bureau: the true story of how two matchmakers arranged love in wartime London
2017
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Table of Contents

Audrey's uncle has a brainwave
No, it's not a brothel
Open for matrimonial business
The capitulation of Cedric Thistleton
The perfect secretary and other learning curves
New clients wanted
but no spies, please
Mary transforms Myrtle
The mansion and the mating
Mary's bones and babies
While bombs fall the Bureau booms
Sex, tragedy, success and bust bodices
A sideline and two triumphs
Other agendas, pastures new
Heather chooses mating over chickens
Picot and Dorothy hold the fort
Peacetime problems
Loneliness and heartbreak
Mr. Hedgehog, journalists, a tiny Baptist and lies
A chapter of accidents and designs
Thanks to Uncle George.

Edition Notes

Originally published as Marriages are made in Bond Street, in the U.K. in 2016 by Macmillan.

Includes P.S. section (About the author -- About the book -- Reading group questions).

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306.81
Library of Congress
HQ802 .H26 2016, HQ802.H26 2016, HQ802 .H26 2017

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 313, 25 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
Number of pages
313

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26925470M
ISBN 10
0062562665
ISBN 13
9780062562661
OCLC/WorldCat
972460732

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