The Marriage Bureau
Penrose Halson
(Author)
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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 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"--Back cover.
Product Details
Price
$18.99
Publisher
William Morrow & Company
Publish Date
August 03, 2023
Pages
352
Dimensions
5.2 X 7.8 X 1.1 inches | 0.55 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780062562661
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About the Author
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.
Reviews
"[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
