Marriages Are Made in Bond Street
Autor Penrose Halsonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 feb 2017
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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.
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781509822423
ISBN-10: 1509822429
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 196 x 132 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:Main Market Ed
Editura: Pan Macmillan
ISBN-10: 1509822429
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 196 x 132 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:Main Market Ed
Editura: Pan Macmillan
Cuprins
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
Descriere
A warm and touching account of the early days of one of Britain's most successful marriage bureaux.