| Edition |
First William Morrow edition. |
| Description |
viii, 313, 25 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Originally published as Marriages are made in Bond Street, in the U.K. in 2016 by Macmillan. |
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Includes P.S. section (About the author -- About the book -- Reading group questions). |
| Contents |
Audrey's uncle has a brainwave -- No, it's not a brothel -- Open for matrimonial business -- The capitulation of Cedric Thistleton -- The perfect secretary and other learning curves -- New clients wanted--but no spies, please -- Mary transforms Myrtle -- The mansion and the mating -- Mary's bones and babies -- While bombs fall the Bureau booms -- Sex, tragedy, success and bust bodices -- A sideline and two triumphs -- Other agendas, pastures new -- Heather chooses mating over chickens -- Picot and Dorothy hold the fort -- Peacetime problems -- Loneliness and heartbreak -- Mr. Hedgehog, journalists, a tiny Baptist and lies -- A chapter of accidents and designs -- Thanks to Uncle George. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Subject |
Jenner, Heather.
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Oliver, Mary.
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Mate selection -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century.
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Dating services -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century.
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Marriage -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century.
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London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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| Added Title |
Marriages are made in Bond Street
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| ISBN |
0062562665 |
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9780062562661 |
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