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If only Pat Macgregor had an inkling of the embarrassment romantic, professional, even aesthetic that flowed from accepting narcissistic ex-boyfriend Bruce Anderson's invitation for coffee, she would never have said yes. And if only Matthew, her boss at the art gallery, hadn't wandered into his local bookshop and picked up a particular book at a particular time, he would never have knocked over his former English teacher or attracted the attentions of the police.
Whether caused by small things such as a cup of coffee and a book, or major events such as Stuart's application for promotion and his wife Irene's decision to go off and study for a PhD in Aberdeen, change is coming to serial fiction's favourite street. But for three seven-year-old boys Bertie Pollock, Ranald Braveheart Macpherson, and Big Lou's foster son Finlay - it also means a getting a glimpse of perfect happiness.
Alexander McCall Smith's delightfully witty, wise and sometimes surreal comedy spirals out to include tennis-playing Rwandan Forest People, researches into levitating Celtic saints, bogus headhunters in Papua New Guinea and primary school performances of Beckett. But its heart remains where it has always been true to life, love and laughter in Edinburgh's New Town.
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'If you have not yet read any of the works of this master storyteller you are missing a trick. Followers of the characters involved may well find one or two surprises within the pages of this delightful novel' - Women Together
'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
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A return to 44 Scotland Street . . .
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- PublisherPolygon (An Imprint of Birlinn Limited)
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1846973821
- ISBN 13 9781846973826
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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