Mona of the Manor: A Novel (Tales of the City, 10), Armistead Maupin

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Mona of the Manor

A Tales of the City Novel
by Armistead Maupin
Hardcover – March 5, 2024

Warm, witty, and gently outrageous, Mona of the Manor brings Armistead Maupin’s beloved Tales of the City universe across the Atlantic for a charming late-career triumph.

Set in the early 1990s, the novel finds Mona Ramsey—once a free-spirited San Franciscan, now a widowed English lady—unexpectedly presiding over Easley House, her late husband’s grand but slightly crumbling manor in the Cotswolds. At forty-eight, Mona owns the place outright, but keeping the lights on and the roof from leaking means opening the house to paying guests.

Running Easley alongside her is Wilfred, her fabulous adopted son, who guests mistake for a charming but accident-prone butler, and Mr. Hargis, the estate’s delightfully eccentric gardener. Together, they’ve achieved a precarious peace—until a pair of American visitors arrive with a secret so troubling it threatens to upend everything.

As the town prepares for a Midsummer celebration, Mona must marshal all her legendary charm, resolve, and wit—along with help from Wilfred, her girlfriend Poppy the postmistress, and longtime friends Michael Tolliver and Anna Madrigal—to protect her found family and restore balance before the entire village descends on Easley House.

Tender, funny, and deeply humane, Mona of the Manor is a celebration of chosen family, queer resilience, and the enduring magic of home—wherever you manage to build it.

Book Details

• Author: Armistead Maupin

• Binding: Hardcover

• Publication Date: March 5, 2024

• Series: Tales of the City (Book 10)

• Genre: Literary Fiction

• Content Notes: Queer characters, chosen family, found family, intergenerational friendship