Marriages Are Made in Bond Street
True Stories from a 1940s Marriage Bureau
by Penrose HalsonPaperback
Published by Pan Books February 2017
ISBN 978-1-5098-2242-3

Hardback
Published by Macmillan March 2016
ISBN 978-1-4472-8262-4

The Marriage Bureau
The True Story of How Two Matchmakers Arranged Love in Wartime London
by Penrose HalsonPaperback
Published by HarperCollins USA May 2nd 2017
ISBN 978-0-06-256266-1

The Marriage Bureau
True Stories of 1940s Matchmakers
by Penrose HalsonPaperback
Published by HarperCollins Canada April 18th 2017
ISBN 978-1-44345-142-0

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