Description
| Product ID: | 9781509822423 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Marriages Are Made in Bond Street |
| Subtitle: | True Stories from a 1940s Marriage Bureau |
| Authors: | Author: Penrose Halson |
| Page Count: | 368 |
| Subjects: | True stories: general, True stories, Social and cultural history, Hospitality and service industries, Dating, relationships, living together and marriage: advice and issues, Social & cultural history, Service industries, Dating, relationships, living together & marriage, England, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1945 to c 1960 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A warm and touching account of the early days of one of Britain's most successful marriage bureaux. <p>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. We meet a remarkable cross-section of British society in the 1940s: gents with a 'merry twinkle', potential fifth-columnists, nervous spinsters, isolated farmers seeking 'a nice quiet affekshunate girl' and girls looking 'exactly' like Greta Garbo and Vivien Leigh, all desperately longing to find 'The One'. And thanks to Heather and Mary, they almost always did just that.<br><br>A riveting glimpse of life and love during and after the war, <i>Marriages Are Made in Bond Street</i> is a heart-warming, touching and thoroughly absorbing account of a world gone by.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Pan Books |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-02-23 |