Lucia Triumphant

With her dearest archenemy, Elizabeth Mapp-Flint, ousted from the Town Council, Lucia, twice-elected Mayor of Tilling, is strangely wearied of her mortal span. For she feels she has accomplished everything – what else is there for her to do? But Time, and Elizabeth Mapp-Flint, have events of catastrophic proportion in store. Lucia has hardly launched her project of The Tilling Tapestry when Elizabeth sweeps through Tilling society with her Monopoly Set, putting sewing, bridge and dinner parties to rout, wooing even the obedient Georgie to the delights of buying Vine Street and the Water Works. Lucia throws off her lethargy and prepares to conquer Tilling anew. Originally published in 1986, Lucia Triumphant is the second of Tom Holt’s officially sanctioned sequels to the hilarious “Mapp and Lucia” novels of E.F. Benson.