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The Marriage Bureau: The True Story of How Two Matchmakers Arranged Love in Wartime London Audiobook, by Penrose Halson Play Audiobook Sample

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

The Marriage Bureau: The True Story of How Two Matchmakers Arranged Love in Wartime London Audiobook, by Penrose Halson Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Jane Copland Publisher: HarperAudio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.00 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: May 2017 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780062674302

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

23

Longest Chapter Length:

25:23 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

14 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

20:50 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

A riveting glimpse of life and love during and after World War II—a heart-warming, touching, and thoroughly absorbing true story of a world gone by.

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 matchmaking. 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.

From shop girls to debutantes; widowers to war veterans, clients came in search of security, social acceptance, or simply love. And thanks to the meticulous organization and astute intuition of the Bureau’s matchmakers, most found what they were looking for.

Penrose Halson draws from newspaper and magazine articles, advertisements, and interviews with the proprietors themselves to bring the romance and heartbreak of matchmaking during wartime to vivid, often hilarious, life in this unforgettable story of a most unusual business.

“A book full of charm and hilarity.”—Country Life

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“A book full of charm and hilarity.”

— Country Life

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About Penrose Halson

Penrose Halson has been a teacher, an editor and a writer. She was first a client and later, beginning in 1986, the proprietor of the Katharine Allen Marriage & Advice Bureau, with which Heather Jenner’s agency had then merged. She is the author of Happily Ever After: How to Meet Your Match, published in 1999.

About Jane Copland

Jane Copland has over twenty-five years’ experience in broadcasting and voice-overs. Working mainly in television, she has been a BBC newsreader, presenter, and continuity announcer. She has narrated many documentaries for BBC 2, Channel 4, and the History Channel. For her first audiobook, The Palace of Curiosities by Rosie Garland, she played both female and male roles and a host of accents from posh to cockney, Dutch to Italian.