The characters that filled the pages of the three earlier Tales of the City books with love and laughter are at it again, as an ordinary house-husband and his ambitious wife discover there's more to making a baby than meets the eye. Unexpected help arrives in the form of a British monarch, a grieving gay neighbour, and an international ring of mail-order brides. Armistead Maupin has written a comedy of manners for our times.

Maupin is a richly gifted comic author
Observer

Like those of Dickens and Wilkie Collins, Armistead Maupin's novels have all appeared originally as serials…it is the strength of this approach, with its fantastic adventures and astonishingly contrived coincidences, that makes these novels charming and compelling
Literary Review

A consummate entertainer…It is Maupin's Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly
Times Literary Supplement

San Francisco is fortunate in having a chronicler as witty and likeable as Armistead Maupin
Independent

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