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In the spring and coil of 1939, with the Second World Conflict looming, two established 24-year-olds, Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver, decided to open a relationship bureau. They found a tiny office on London's Bond Street and go about the sensitive business of matchmaking. Sketching on the bureau's comprehensive archives, Penrose Halson - who, a long time later, found herself the proprietor of the bureau - tells their storyline and the tales of these clients. We meet a amazing cross portion of British culture in the 1940s: gents with a 'merry twinkle', potential fifth columnists, anxious spinsters, isolated farmers seeking 'a nice noiseless affekshunate female' and women looking 'exactly' like Greta Garbo and Vivien Leigh, all desperately longing to find 'The One'. And because of Heather and Mary, they almost always did just that. A riveting glimpse of life and love after and during the warfare, Marriages ARE CREATED in Bond Road is a heartwarming, touching and thoroughly absorbing bank account of a world gone by.
