Mona of the Manor
Tales of the City, Book 10
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Narrated by:
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Mara Wilson
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By:
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Armistead Maupin
About this listen
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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.
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- Mofanning
- 08-04-24
Time with old friends
Very much a book for those familiar with the full Tales of the City series. As a standalone, it doesn’t work. That’s likely not the intent. Slightly annoying where narrator calls Poppy Polly on occasion, but overall enjoyable … if short and slight of story. One for the fans. I am a fan.
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- philip lobatto
- 23-03-24
Mona of the Manor
Absolutely loved every chapter. Excellent writing as usual, and very well read. A great srory
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- spencear
- 07-04-24
A comfortable blanket
Returning to the characters from the long Tales of the City books, was like coming home. Mapping moves the story alone without the reader having to have read previous entries (although, that wouldn't hurt), as there are enough call backs to update new readers and reward those who have been long time fans.
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- MR R.
- 16-05-24
Interesting accents!
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.
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- Mr. D. Reeves
- 11-03-24
A lovely chance to visit old friends
A nice addition to the TotC series. A pleasure to revisit much loved characters.
Sadly though, the narrators generalised one size fits no one English accents are awful. Actually worse than Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins.
Truly terrible and surely there must be American actors out there who can do accents. I feel
mean saying this but it spoiled the book for me (good work on the American characters though).
Historical note - yes, we had safer sex tables on the Heath, but nowhere near the play spaces (it intimidates people). Handed out condoms (not “Jonnies” 😆) and lube to those on the way in, and safer sex literature to those leaving for home.
“Willy” is not a term that would be used in a sexual situation 😆 as it’s more used by children than adults.
Can’t remember using a candelabra, but it does sound like something some of the volunteers would have loved to do. I hope we did.
The tree you mention is still there and still in action, especially during the long hot summer nights.
Loved the detail of the scene back then (especially the old style bar layout at Comptons). Neat detail and thanks for researching this.
Hoping a new story follows this, and soon.
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- Amazon Customer
- 21-09-24
Fabulous return of old friends from Barbary Lane
Love this latest addition to the Tales of the City collection. Beautiful to revisit old characters and new adventures
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- Anonymous User
- 19-04-25
The characters
I loved getting another Tales of the City book , adore the authors writing. I wish I had read it. I’m from England and the UK accents were all over the place , I found it so off putting. There were Australian , Manchester, London , Scottish ( I think ?!) characters and they all ended up sounding like a bad impression of Bert from Mary Poppins. It really spoilt it. Not to take away from the story and the nostalgia of the characters from all the books.
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- Amazon Customer
- 19-04-25
Short and sweet
Great to hear more from the.main characters, though only Mona really gets much 'screen time". It's a more slight story than the others but the scene setting is good and great descriptions of the house and area.
The narration is a bit odd and to my English ears the English accents are all over the place and don't actually sound like any real accents at all. I can't say how authentic the American accepts would sound to US ears. it was quite distracting though and didn't help make the characters real.
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- John Logan
- 23-05-24
Lovely book, but distracting performance
Long time Armistead Maupin fan. Loved the book, but had to stop listening as the narrator’s British accent was terribly distracting.
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- Amazon Customer
- 27-12-24
Terrible accents
Lordy, I love Armistead Maupin’s books but the narrator’s attempts at UK English accents are so cringeworthy it completely distracts from the story. Shame, otherwise I would have enjoyed it.
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