Picking up right where the first book, Tales of the City, left off the story returns to the lives of some of our much-loved characters including Michael Toliver, Mona Ramsey, Mary Ann Singleton, and their landlady Anna Madrigal, as well as introducing a few new faces. “This was home now – this crumbling, ivy-entwined relic called 28 Barbary Lane – and the only parental figure in Mary-Ann’s day-to-day existence was Anna Madrigal, a landlady whose fey charm and eccentric ways were legendary on Russian Hill.” For this reason, the chapters are yet again relatively short – making the book easy to pick up and put down whenever you have time to read – and each chapter successfully captures the audience in a way that compels them to keep reading the novel or in the case of its serialisation, makes them wanting more and anticipating the next instalment in the newspaper. More Tales of the City is the second book in Armistead Maupin’s acclaimed series, and like the first book it was initially serialised in a newspaper column before later being published in novel form. More Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin ( Hive Books / Amazon/ )
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