![]() ![]() ![]() I don’t want to spoil the tales and their twists for you though so I won’t discuss the plot/s further.įor me the main joy of the book and this has been the case every time, in the fifteen years that I have re-read it on and off, is the fact that it feels like real life. All together they do, as the title suggests, make a wonderful collection of tales, and indeed a narrative of, the city. It is Mary Ann’s story of arriving and settling in San Francisco that makes the initial tale in which more and more tales of the mixed bunch of characters around her diverge and merge off of, some linking back on each other and some adding twists and turns you wouldn’t see coming. ![]() ![]() Initially moving in with her old friend Connie, who is a little more free and easy that Mary Ann can believe, she finds her own apartment at 28 Barbary Lane above her mysterious and initially rather odd seeming landlady Anna Madrigal, neighbours Mona, Mouse, Brian and soon Norman. ***** Transworld Books, paperback, 1978, fiction, 269 pages, from my own bookshelvesĪt the end of her vacation from her homeland of Cleveland, Mary Ann Singleton decides, rather recklessly for her, that staying in the city of San Francisco should be a more permanent move. ![]()
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