Book description
If he's in the right mood, divine Angus might grant you sight of your
true love in a dream; you might even fall in love with him, but he'll
never love you back. He's too busy making mischief, stealing the palace
of the gods from his father, turning his enemies into pigs etc ; until
he is trapped by his own romantic games and falls for an unattainable
woman, doomed to seek her forever. In twentieth-century Scotland,
Angus's troubled alter ego searches for his true family and identity; a
psychotherapist who helps people understand their dreams, his life seems
to parallel that of his mythic namesake, until we ask, could they be one
and the same? Mesmerically weaving together the tales of the Celtic god
and the Scottish scientist, Alexander McCall Smith unites dream and
reality, leaving us to wonder: what is life, but the pursuit of our
dreams?
