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Mona of the Manor

Tales of the City, Book 10

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Mona of the Manor

By: Armistead Maupin
Narrated by: Mara Wilson
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Mona is the eccentric Lady of Easley House, running a bed and breakfast to keep her inherited English manor afloat.

Wilfred is Mona's 26-year-old adopted son who spends his weekends in London, looking for love in the gay bars of Soho while pining after his pen pal, Michael 'Mouse' Tolliver.

The current guest of the manor is Rhonda, a straight-laced southern belle who has left her abusive husband and has no idea what to do next, especially in the company of the free-spirited Mona and Wilfred.

Mona of the Manor, the tenth self-contained Tales of the City chronicles, is a sharply witty comedy about identity, assumptions and finding a logical family in 1980s Thatcherite Britain.

©2024 Armistead Maupin (P)2024 Penguin Audio City Life Coming of Age Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literature & Fiction Romance Urban Comedy Witty

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Such a great tale, while catching up with dear friends we’ve not heard of for a while. Such a joy. X

So good to be with old friends once again

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This a slight, sweet addition to the TOTC series. After a very slow start it finally picks up in the last third and cements itself as a welcome addition to Maupin’s magical world. Despite very little happening to his beloved characters & a disappointing lack of insight to Mona’s story as a whole, it still contains those wonderful Tales touches… quirky locations, eccentric queer lives & a little bit of twisted darkness. Now can we have Michael Tolliver in his dotage, back at Barbary lane running the house in his 70s… a fitting close to the series, surely ;)

An all too brief glimpse back at this iconic series

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Emigrating to the UK from the United States has been invested into the crafting of this new instalment of “Tales of the City” I’m so happy to be back with Mona and her Logical Family.

Mupins use of English profanity 💚

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Long time Armistead Maupin fan. Loved the book, but had to stop listening as the narrator’s British accent was terribly distracting.

Lovely book, but distracting performance

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Great to be back with these characters, but the mistakes in the book and strange narration were jarring. One chapter they were in Worcestershire, the next Gloucestershire, people’s names changed and the wrong accent was done for the wrong character. Was the narration rushed, or partly AI? Gorgeous setting though.

Interesting accents!

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