Bel Air is a wealthy community nestled in the hills outside of Los Angeles. It is here, among the pastel stucco houses and palm trees, that Bingo Edwards, the New Age wife of an orthopedic surgeon, lives a sheltered and eccentric life raising chickens and box turtles. Her harmonious existence is disrupted when the local fire department arrives to remove the hazardous backyard privacy hedges which have protected her from the outside world. Uprooting the hedges exposes Bingo all too well to her neighbors, an unconventional Beverly Hills psychiatrist and his eccentric patients. She also finds herself in the company of strangers, particularly a magnificently handsome fireman who has made it his personal crusade to "service" many of the housewives on Bellagio Road. As the situation heats up for everyone, an enormous fire threatens to consume Bel Air and in the process, destroy Bingo
- ISBN10 0452279836
- ISBN13 9780452279834
- Publish Date 1 June 1998 (first published November 1971)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 October 2011
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
- Imprint New American Library
- Format Paperback
- Pages 243
- Language English