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A riveting glimpse of life and love after and during World War II - a heartwarming, touching, and carefully absorbing true history of a world gone by. In the spring and coil of 1939, with the Second World War 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 set about the sensitive business of matchmaking. Sketching on the bureau's extensive archives, Penrose Halson - who a long time later found herself the proprietor of the bureau - explains to their history and the reports of these clients. From shopgirls to debutantes, widowers to warfare veterans, clients arrived searching for security, social popularity, or simply love. And thanks to the meticulous firm and astute intuition of the bureau's matchmakers, most found what they were looking for. Penrose Halson pulls from magazine and publication articles, adverts, and interviews with the proprietors themselves to bring the relationship and heartbreak of matchmaking during wartime to vivid, often entertaining life in this unforgettable story of the most abnormal business.