Buying a crumbling mansion in Casablanca and discovering it comes with three resident guardians, a dispute about the jinn living in it, and a renovation that cannot proceed until the spiritual question is settled.
It is in the Year in Provence genre and better than most of it, because the obstacles come from a genuinely different set of assumptions about what a house is and who else has a claim on it, rather than from comic locals being slow.
The exorcism chapters are the ones people remember.
Read May 2016.
