The fourth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series Armistead Maupin's best-selling San
Francisco saga . 'A consummate entertainer who has made a generation laugh.... It is
Maupin's Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly' Edmund White Times Literary
Supplement ____________________ When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide
to start a family they discover there's more to making a baby than meets the eye. Help arrives
in the form of a grieving gay neighbour a visiting monarch and the dashing young lieutenant
who defects from her yacht. Bittersweet and profoundly affecting Babycakes was the first piece
of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS. Hurdling barriers both social and sexual
Maupin leads the eccentric tenants of Barbary Lane through heartbreak and triumph through
nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences in 1970s San Francisco. The result is a glittering
and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.
