Marriage Bureau, Mary Oliver
Marriage Bureau, Mary Oliver
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Marriage Bureau
The true story that revolutionised dating

Author: Mary Oliver, Richard Kurti

Narrator: Helen Quigley

Unabridged: 5 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: B7 Media

Published: 11/16/2020

Synopsis

At a time when internet dating is booming across all ages and classes and women are setting the agenda as never before, some things have not changed: You can’t always leave love to chance. And whether the search begins with an app in the 21st century or a visit to two young but savvy matchmakers in the 1940s, the desire for lifelong happiness with a perfectly suited partner remains the same.
This is the remarkable true story of the Marriage Bureau; its successes, its rare failures and its many clients. Told with wit and honesty in Mary and Heather’s own words, it is now published for the first time as an audiobook.

About Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver (1935–2019), one of the most popular and widely honored poets in the U.S., was the author of more than thirty books of poetry and prose. Over the course of her long and illustrious career, she received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for American Primitive in 1984. Oliver also received the Shelley Memorial Award; a Guggenheim Fellowship; an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Achievement Award; the Christopher Award and the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award for House of Light; the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems; a Lannan Foundation Literary Award; and the New England Booksellers Association Award for Literary Excellence. She lived most of her life in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sally

I heard about this book on Woman’s Hour. As the reviewer implied it is not a great literary work but it is a fascinating insight into the period of social history. As it starts life just before the Second World War it surprised me that there was a need and level of success. Match making has not real......more

Goodreads review by Christine

3:5. I thoroughly enjoy this sociological book about two woman, Mary Olivar and Mary Benedetta, who recognized the need for British women of all classes to find financial and psychological security in the institution of marriage. Their dating bureau predated Tinder by about 50 years.......more

Goodreads review by Veronica

En Londres en los años cuarenta, después de una mala experiencia que casi acabó en matrimonio, Mary Oliver decidió crear el Marriage Bureau, una agencia de citas junto con su amiga Heather. En este libro, Mary cuenta sus vivencias, relata algunas anécdotas graciosas sobre algunos de sus clientes, y......more

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