The Marriage Bureau LP
the true story of how two matchmakers arranged love in wartime london
$55.95
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
4 August 2025
Summary
The Matchmakers of Bond Street: Love and War at The Marriage Bureau
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780062670649 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0062670646 |
| Author: | Penrose Halson |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Imprint: | Collins |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 4 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 363g |
| Dimensions: | 226mm x 147mm x 25mm |
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”[This book is] rather like a box of chocolates – to be savored and enjoyed at one’s leisure.”
”[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
About The Author
Penrose Halson
Penrose Halson has been a teacher, an editor and a writer. She was first a client and later, beginning in 1986, the proprietor of the Katharine Allen Marriage & Advice Bureau, with which Heather Jenner’s agency had by then merged. She is the author of Happily Ever After: How to Meet Your Match. Penrose is married and lives in London.
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