If you are a fan of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand or the Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Pie Society you will love Jana Bibi’s Excellent Fortunes. It is the story of a Scottish widow who inherits a house in a hill town in India from her uncle. She is middle aged and her grown up son is living in Scotland (he can’t understand why she would want to live in India when she could live with him in Scotland) and decides to move into the inherited house. Unbeknownst to her, it is currently inhabited by aggressive monkeys and they decide to vacate when they have bagpipe music played to them by a retired Gurkha. Once the monkeys have left, Jana Bibi and her parrot Mr. Ganguly move into the house and into the lives of her new neighbours. The story is charming and funny and lucky for us this is the first book in a new series. I would recommend this book to anyone!