‘May well be the funniest series of novels currently in progress...Maupin's ear for dialogue is as acute as his feeling for characterization, and the net result is as engaging a read as you are likely to encounter in many moons'

                   THE TIMES

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.

One-A royal welcome

Two-Mrs Halcyon"s scoop

Three-The baby thing

Four-Bolunteer

Five-A hard time believing

Six-Anna"s family

Seven-Hello sailor

Eight-Campmates

Nine-Mona revisited

Ten-Private collection

Eleven-The return of Connie Bradshaw

Twelve-Simon"s proposition

Thirteen-Settling up

Fourteen-This terrific idea

Fifteen-Pumping the lieutenant

Sixteen-44 Colville Crescent

Seventeen-Time on his hands

Eighteen-Enter Miss Treves

Nineteen-A good match

Twenty-Mirage

Twenty-one-Off the record

Twenty-two-English leather

Twenty-three-Cross purposes

Twenty-four-The kid upstaire

Twenty-five-Her little-girl things

Twenty-six-That woman again

Twenty-seven-Thr Jesus tortilla

Twenty-eight-Death at the door

Twenty-nine-All she gets

Thirty-Outfoxed

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