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Marriages Are Made in Bond Street

Marriages Are Made in Bond Street

True Stories from a 1940s Marriage Bureau

by Penrose Halson
CD-Audio
Publication Date: 01/02/2017

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A heart-warming, touching and thoroughly absorbing glimpse of life and love during and after the war.

In the spring of 1939, with the Second World War looming, two determined 24-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.

'An absorbing story ... the book crackles with insights into the mores of those times.' - Mail on Sunday

'The makers of Call The Midwife need look no further for their next television project.' - The Daily Mail

ISBN:
9781509854882
9781509854882
Category:
True stories
Format:
CD-Audio
Publication Date:
01-02-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bolinda Publishing
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
9
Dimensions (mm):
134x146x28mm
Weight:
0.22kg
Penrose Halson

Penrose Halson's career encompassed teaching, writing, editing and, to her astonishment, becoming first lady Master of a City Livery Company.

Her determined mother sent her to the Katharine Allen Marriage & Advice Bureau, of which she became proprietor in 1986.

In 1992 it incorporated Heather Jenner's agency. Aged 48 she finally delighted her mother by marrying and lives in London with her husband.

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