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44 Scotland Street

Alexander McCall Smith’™s Scotland Street occupies a busy, bohemian corner of Edinburgh’™s New Town, where the old haute bourgeoisie finds itself rubbing shoulders with students, poets and portraitists. And number 44 in particular has more than its fair share of eccentrics and failures.When pat – on her second gap year and a source of some worry to her parents – is accepted as new tenant at number 44, she isn’™t quite sure how long she’™ll last. Her flatmate Bruce, a rugby-playing chartered surveyor, is impossibly narcissistic, carelessly philandering and infuriatingly handsome. Downstairs lives the gloriously pretentious Irene, whose precocious five-year-old is in therapy after setting fire to his father’™s copy of the Guardian. And then there is the shrewd, intellectual Domenica MacDonald, mysteriously employed but a sharp-eyed observer of the house’™s activities in her spare time’ฆIn McCall Smith’™s hands such characters retain charm and novelty, simultaneously arousing both mirth and empathy. 44 Scotland Street is vintage McCall Smith, tackling issues of trust and honesty, snobbery and hypocrisy, love and loss, but all with great lightness of touch. Clever, elegant and funny, this is a novel that provides huge entertainment but which is underpinned by the moral dilemmas of everyday life and the characters’™ struggles to resolve them.

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