Marriage Bureau The

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 match-making. 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--Back cover.