The Marriage Bureau: The True Story of How Two Matchmakers Arranged Love in Wartime London
The Marriage Bureau: The True Story of How Two Matchmakers Arranged Love in Wartime London
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"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.