Marriages Are Made in Bond Street - True Stories from a 1940s Marriage Bureau (Paperback, Main Market Ed.)

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 match-making. 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. We meet a remarkable cross-section of British society in the 1940s: gents with a 'merry twinkle', potential fifth-columnists, nervous spinsters, isolated farmers seeking 'a nice quiet affekshunate girl' and girls looking 'exactly' like Greta Garbo and Vivien Leigh, all desperately longing to find 'The One'. And thanks to Heather and Mary, they almost always did just that. A riveting glimpse of life and love during and after the war, Marriages Are Made in Bond Street is a heart-warming, touching and thoroughly absorbing account of a world gone by.

General

Imprint:	Pan Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2017
Authors:	Penrose Halson
Dimensions:	197 x 131 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	368
Edition:	Main Market Ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-5098-2242-3
Categories:	Books > Fiction > True stories > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Service industries > General Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Family & other relationships > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Promotions
LSN:	1-5098-2242-9
Barcode:	9781509822423

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