Mona of the Manor

The tenth novel in the Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga, follows Mona Ramsey, who marries Lord Teddy Roughton to secure his visa and becomes the sole owner of Easley House in the UK. With her adopted son, Wilfred, she opens the manor to paying guests, but when they discover a terrible secret, Mona must use her charm, willpower, and wiles to set things right before the Midsummer ceremony. The novel is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.

Format: Hardback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 07 March 2024
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd

The tenth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.
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When Mona Ramsey married Lord Teddy Roughton to secure his visa—allowing him to remain in San Francisco to fulfil his wildest dreams—she never imagined she would, by age 48, be the sole owner of Easley House, a romantic country manor in the UK. Now, with her adopted son, Wilfred, Mona has opened Easley’s doors to paying guests to keep her inherited English manor afloat.

As they welcome a married American couple to Easley, Mona and Wilfred discover their new guests’ terrible secret. Instead of focussing on the imminent arrival of old friend Michael Tolliver and matriarch Anna Madrigal, Mona will need to use her considerable charm, willpower and wiles to set things right before Easley’s historic Midsummer ceremony.

Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads the eccentric tenants of Barbary Lane through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences in 1980s San Francisco and beyond. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.

Weight: 444g
Dimension: 243 x 163 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780857527073