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The True Story of How Two Matchmakers Arranged Love in Wartime London
William Morrow
May 2017
On Sale: May 2, 2017
352 pages ISBN: 0062562665 EAN: 9780062562661 Kindle: B01JYX45N6 Paperback / e-Book
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Historical | Romance Historical
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.
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