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.
