44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith (Paperback, 2005)

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Immediately recognisable are the Edinburgh chartered surveyor, stalwart of the Conservative Association, who dreams of membership of Scotland's most exclusive golf club. We have the pushy Stockbridge mother, and her prodigiously talented five-year-old son, who is making good progress with the saxophone and with his Italian. Then there is Domenica Macdonald who is that type of Edinburgh lady who sees herself as a citizen of a broader intellectual world. In 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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PublisherLittle, Brown Book Group
ISBN-139780349118970
eBay Product ID (ePID)87331879

Product Key Features

Book Title44 Scotland Street
AuthorAlexander McCall Smith
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicBooks
Publication Year2005
GenreHumor
Number of Pages336 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height199mm
Item Width130mm
Item Weight264g

Additional Product Features

Title_AuthorAlexander Mccall Smith
Series Title44 Scotland Street
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

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  • Most favourable review

    Very funny

    Heard about the Scotland road series of books being good so decided to try them. Not available in my local library so I bought the first five from eBay. Very easy reading with delightful characters and interesting storyline

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  • Most critical review

    Awful book, do not recommend

    Characters unbelievable; very dated; appears as if they are set in the 1930s - 1940s but meant to be contemporary! Embarrassing attempt at humour - e.g. character falling onto a car roof and waving at person in window, another character going out in a kilt and forgetting to wear underpants - cringingly awful. Plot feeble. Reads like an extended Woman's Magazine story. Definitely do not recommend.

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  • Very enjoyable

    Beguiling read. Short chapters, Characters drawn with skill, humour and kindness. You wiil have many a smile, and the occasional chuckle, but few out and out belly laughs - this is subtle, clever and accurate, written with a fine nib pen, not a broad brush

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  • Lights but strongly humourous book

    1st book of Scotland street series and it engages from the first page. Nice short chapters. As not a native speaker I still get the humour out of it!

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  • great !

    very good deal. Thanks.

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  • Scotland Street

    Love the characters unfolding. An easy read but with a promise of much more to come .

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  • The serial fictional story

    Re=reading this for the second time. Bought as it was missing from the series on.y shelf -

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  • not a patch on the lady detective books

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  • Heartwarming

    I bought it for a friend who absolutely loved the book.

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  • 44 Scotland street

    Very good book

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned