viii, 313, 25 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Note
Originally published as Marriages are made in Bond Street, in the U.K. in 2016 by Macmillan.
Includes P.S. section (About the author -- About the book -- Reading group questions).
Summary
"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.