The marriage bureau
Subtitle: the true story of how two matchmakers arranged love in wartime London
By: Penrose Halson
Edition: First William Morrow edition.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780062562661
Subjects: Dating services; Social life and customs; Mate selection; Marriage; History
Work titles: Marriages are made in Bond Street
Description: "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."--Back cover.
Notes: Originally published as Marriages are made in Bond Street, in the U.K. in 2016 by Macmillan.

Includes P.S. section (About the author -- About the book -- Reading group questions).
Table of contents: title: Audrey's uncle has a brainwave; title: No, it's not a brothel; title: Open for matrimonial business; title: The capitulation of Cedric Thistleton; title: The perfect secretary and other learning curves; title: New clients wanted; title: but no spies, please; title: Mary transforms Myrtle; title: The mansion and the mating; title: Mary's bones and babies; title: While bombs fall the Bureau booms; title: Sex, tragedy, success and bust bodices; title: A sideline and two triumphs; title: Other agendas, pastures new; title: Heather chooses mating over chickens; title: Picot and Dorothy hold the fort; title: Peacetime problems; title: Loneliness and heartbreak; title: Mr. Hedgehog, journalists, a tiny Baptist and lies; title: A chapter of accidents and designs; title: Thanks to Uncle George.