- Title:
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Marriages Are Made in Bond Street: True Stories from a 1940s Marriage Bureau (MP3)
- Written by:
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Penrose Halson
- Read by:
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Patience Tomlinson
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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10 hours 5 minutes
- MP3 size:
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417 MB
- Published:
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February 28 2017
- Available Date:
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February 28 2017
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781509854899
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Historical
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Macmillan audio
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Price
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'The makers of Call The Midwife need look no further for their next television project.'
The Daily Mail
A heart-warming, touching and thoroughly absorbing glimpse of life and love during and after the war.
In the spring of 1939, with the Second World War looming, two determined 24-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.
'An absorbing story ... the book crackles with insights into the mores of those times.'
Mail on Sunday