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Book SynopsisBook 1 in the hugely popular 44 Scotland Street series by worldwide bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith
Alexander McCall Smith''s delightful Scotland Street occupies a busy, bohemian corner of Edinburgh''s New Town, where the old bourgeoisie rubs shoulders with students, poets and eccentrics.
When Pat is accepted as a new tenant at number 44 Scotland Street, she isn''t sure how long she''ll last. Her flatmate Bruce, a rugby-playing chartered surveyor, is impossibly narcissistic, carelessly philandering and infuriatingly handsome. Downstairs lives pretentious Irene Pollock, whose five-year-old son is in therapy after setting fire to his father''s copy of the Guardian. And watching over them all is shrewd, intellectual Domenica Macdonald, anthropologist and sharp-eyed observer of the household''s activities...
PRAISE FOR THE 44 SCOTLAND STREET SERIES:
''Perfect escapist fiction'' The Times
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As charming as the bohemian street in which it's set. * SCOTTISH DAILY RECORD *
It is hard to think of a contemporary writer more genuinely engaging...[his] novels are also extremely funny: I find it impossible to think about them without smiling * Craig Brown, MAIL ON SUNDAY *
A treasure of a writer whose books deserve immediate devouring * Marcel Berlins, GUARDIAN *
a hilarious yet sharply insightful tale of middle-class Edinburgh ... a joyous, charming portrait of city life and human foibles * SUNDAY EXPRESS *
