Marriages Are Made in Bond Street

Name: Marriages Are Made in Bond Street
Brand: Pan Macmillan
SKU: 9781509822423-V
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By Penrose Halson

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Men: Marilyn Monroe with homely ways. Women: Preferably good looks, golden hair and blue eyes. If not available, any decent type will do. 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. Drawing on the bureau's extensive archives, Penrose Halson - who, many years later, found herself the proprietor of the bureau - tells their heart-warming story, and those of their clients. There are 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. Marriages Are Made in Bond Street is an affectionate, occasionally hilarious and often touching account of a world gone by. 'The makers of Call the Midwife need look no further for their next television project' Daily Mail 'A book full of charm and hilarity, written in a no-nonsense style by an accomplished writer and storyteller' Country Life 'Absorbing . . . the book crackles with insights into the mores of those times' Mail on Sunday

Product details

Binding:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

368

Release Date:

2017-02-23

Publication Date:

2017-02-23

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

1509822429

ISBN13:

9781509822423

GPSR Manufacturer Reference:

[email protected]

Minimum Reading Age:

18

Weight:

274 g

Height:

196 cm

Width:

132 cm

Thickness:

26 cm

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Almost no signs of wear. Book pages have no markings, accessories are intact and all other media are in good condition.

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