Penrose Halson

Marriages Are Made in Bond Street (eBook, ePUB)

True Stories from a 1940s Marriage Bureau

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

A riveting glimpse of life and love during and after the war, Marriages Are Made in Bond Street is a heart-warming, touching and thoroughly absorbing account of a world gone by.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781447282617
• Artikelnr.: 44777790

Autorenporträt

Penrose Halson's career encompassed teaching, writing, editing and, to her astonishment, becoming first lady Master of a City Livery Company. Her determined mother sent her to the Katharine Allen Marriage & Advice Bureau, of which she became proprietor in 1986. In 1992 it incorporated Heather Jenner's agency. Aged forty-eight she finally delighted her mother by marrying and lives in London with her husband. She is the author of Marriages Are Made in Bond Street.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
i: Prologue Chapter
1: Audrey's Uncle Has a Brainwave Chapter
2: No, It's Not a Brothel Chapter
3: Open for Matrimonial Business Chapter
4: The Capitulation of Cedric Thistleton Chapter
5: The Perfect Secretary and Other Learning Curves Chapter
6: New Clients Wanted
But No Spies, Please Chapter
7: Mary Transforms Myrtle Chapter
8: The Mansion and the Mating Chapter
9: Mary's Bones and Babies Chapter
10: While Bombs Fall the Bureau Booms Chapter
11: Sex, Tragedy, Success and Bust Bodices Chapter
12: A Sideline and Two Triumphs Chapter
13: Other Agendas, Pastures New Chapter
14: Heather Chooses Mating over Chickens Chapter
15: Picot and Dorothy Hold the Fort Chapter
16: Peacetime Problems Chapter
17: Loneliness and Heartbreak Chapter
18: Mr Hedgehog, Journalists, a Tiny Baptist and Lies Chapter
19: A Chapter of Accidents and Designs Chapter
20: Thanks to Uncle George Section
ii: Appendix Section
iii: Requirements of female clients 1939
c.1949 Section
iv: Requirements of male clients 1939
c.1949 Section
v: Interviewers' comments 1939
c.1949 Acknowledgements
vi: Acknowledgements Acknowledgements
vii: Picture Acknowledgements