Excerpt: The Marriage Bureau by Penrose Halson
In 1938, farmer’s daughter Audrey Parsons was staying with her uncle, a tea planter who managed a remote plantation in the hills of Assam. Audrey was twenty-four, pretty, petite and fragile-looking, with a pink and white complexion, dark hair, big brown eyes and an infectious laugh. Six years earlier, after a whirlwind romance in England,…
