GoodReads meta-data is 146 pages, rated 3.89 by 28 litizens.
Genre: Chick Lit
Verdict: Creaks but fun.
Number One Curmudgeon Avenue is a four-story Victorian house with attic conversion near Manchester in wet England. The house narrates the story of its occupants, namely the sisters Edna and Edith, now in their cantankerous dotages, and assorted relatives, lodgers, neighbours, and the incessant rain that forces things on them, like a roofer.
It is a small world that brings them into contact with many from their past: boyfriends, girlfriends, offspring, and more. Maurice comes a-courting in his white cowboy hat with rat poison in one hand and minties in the other. Layabout son Ricky along with his ex and her sister and mother in tow tries to wheedle mum and auntie out of the house. Then Edith’s lost love, the exotic Genevieve reappears, briefly. The paying lodger is too good to be true, and that is a fact.
First in a series of the Terraced House Diaries. The walls not only have ears, but eyes and a keyboard as well. It ends as ‘To Be Continued.’
N. B. Copy edited needed. Missing words, often prepositions make it hard to follow at times but worth the effort.