The Marriage Bureau

The Marriage Bureau
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 301
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ISBN-10 : 9780062562678
ISBN-13 : 0062562673
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Book Synopsis The Marriage Bureau by : Penrose Halson

Download or read book The Marriage Bureau written by Penrose Halson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting glimpse of life and love during and after World War II—a heart-warming, touching, and thoroughly absorbing true story of a world gone by. 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. From shop girls to debutantes; widowers to war veterans, clients came in search of security, social acceptance, or simply love. And thanks to the meticulous organization and astute intuition of the Bureau’s matchmakers, most found what they were looking for. Penrose Halson draws from newspaper and magazine articles, advertisements, and interviews with the proprietors themselves to bring the romance and heartbreak of matchmaking during wartime to vivid, often hilarious, life in this unforgettable story of a most unusual business. “A book full of charm and hilarity.”—Country Life


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