In a world of lonely hearts, are there enough happy endings to go around?
Marriage matchmaker seeks assistant; discretion essential, rose-tinted glasses optional...Matchmaker Martha Hart never got her happy ending: the Great War destroyed those dreams. Instead, her life's mission is to bring hope to other lonely hearts, though eligible bachelors are thin on the ground in 1930s Yorkshire.
She hopes her new assistant, April McVey, will breathe new life into the bureau. The irrepressible Irish girl with the knack for putting her foot in it is full of modern ideas, but doesn't appear to have a romantic bone in her body.
When lonely widower Fabian, and his enigmatic sister require their help, the bureau face their toughest challenge. Are Martha and April about to discover that in the search for love, it's possible to find something else that's just as wonderful...?
‘A briskly witty delight’ Irish Times
'A charming treat of a novel, full of heart and hope' Hazel Gaynor
Described in the Irish Times as ‘one of our foremost writers for young people’, Sheena Wilkinson has won numerous awards for her eight novels, including the Children’s Books Ireland Book of the Year for Grounded. Her historical trilogy about young women coming of age in the Ireland of a century ago has been praised for its ‘formidable narrative and . . . acute sense of historical justice’ (Belfast Telegraph). Her short stories and memoirs have won or been shortlisted in many competitions, including the Fish and the Bridport. Mrs Hart’s Marriage Bureau is her first novel for adults. Sheena lives by the shores of Lough Neagh.