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Marriage Bureau : The True Story of How Two Matchmakers Arranged Love in Wartime London by Penrose Halson (2017, Trade Paperback)

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The Marriage Bureau: The True Story of How Two Matchmakers Arranged Love in Wartime London by Halson, Penrose [Paperback]

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PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100062670646

ISBN-139780062670649

eBay Product ID (ePID)229056910

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Book TitleMarriage Bureau : the True Story of How Two Matchmakers Arranged Love in Wartime London

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicWomen, Love & Romance, Europe / Great Britain / General, Customs & Traditions, Historical, Sociology / Marriage & Family

Publication Year2017

FeaturesLarge Type

GenreFamily & Relationships, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorPenrose Halson

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight15.7 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Reviews"[This book is] rather like a box of chocolates -- to be savored and enjoyed at one's leisure." -- Huffington Post "A breezy social history for readers interested in tales of a bygone age." -- Library Journal

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Edition DescriptionLarge Type / large print edition

SynopsisA 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, 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