The marriage bureau : the true story of how two matchmakers arranged love in wartime London
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Lyons Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
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viii, 313, 25 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English

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Originally published as Marriages are made in Bond Street, in the U.K. in 2016 by Macmillan.
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Includes P.S. section (About the author -- About the book -- Reading group questions).
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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. 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.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Halson, P. (2017). The marriage bureau: the true story of how two matchmakers arranged love in wartime London . William Morrow, an imprint of HarperColllinsPublishers.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Halson, Penrose. 2017. The Marriage Bureau: The True Story of How Two Matchmakers Arranged Love in Wartime London. New York, NY: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperColllinsPublishers.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Halson, Penrose. The Marriage Bureau: The True Story of How Two Matchmakers Arranged Love in Wartime London New York, NY: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperColllinsPublishers, 2017.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Halson, Penrose. The Marriage Bureau: The True Story of How Two Matchmakers Arranged Love in Wartime London William Morrow, an imprint of HarperColllinsPublishers, 2017.

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