Book description
With his characteristic warmth, inventiveness and brilliant wit,
Alexander McCall Smith gives us more of the gloriously entertaining
comings and goings at 44 Scotland Street, the Edinburgh townhouse.
Six-year-old prodigy Bertie perseveres in his heroic struggle for truth
and balanced good sense against his insufferable mother and her crony,
the psychotherapist Dr Fairbairn, going as far as to make a short-lived
bid for freedom on a trip to Paris with the Edinburgh youth orchestra.
Domenica sets off on an anthropological odyssey with pirates in the
Malacca Straits, while Pat attracts several handsome admirers, including
a toothsome suitor named Wolf. And Big Lou, eternal source of coffee and
good advice to her friends, has love, heartbreak and erstwhile boyfriend
Eddie's misdemeanours on her own mind.
