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020    9780062562661 
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043    e-uk-en 
092    BIO|bJENNER 
100 1  Halson, Penrose,|eauthor. 
245 14 The marriage bureau :|bthe true story of how two 
       matchmakers arranged love in wartime London /|cPenrose 
       Halson. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bWilliam Morrow, an imprint of 
       HarperColllinsPublishers,|c[2017] 
300    viii, 313, 25 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations ;|c21 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
500    Originally published as Marriages are made in Bond Street,
       in the U.K. in 2016 by Macmillan. 
500    Includes P.S. section (About the author -- About the book 
       -- Reading group questions). 
520    "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 Halsonwho many years later 
       found herself the proprietor of the bureautells their 
       story, and those of their clients."--Back cover. 
600 10 Jenner, Heather. 
600 10 Oliver, Mary. 
650  0 Mate selection|zEngland|zLondon|xHistory|y20th century
       |vBiography. 
650  0 Dating services|zEngland|zLondon|xHistory|y20th century
       |vBiography. 
650  0 Marriage|zEngland|zLondon|xHistory|y20th century
       |vBiography. 
651  0 London (England)|xSocial life and customs|y20th century
       |vBiography.