Love Over Scotland

With his characteristic warmth,inventiveness and brilliant wit, Alexander McCall Smithgives us more of the gloriously entertaining comings andgoings at 44 Scotland Street, the Edinburgh townhouse.Six-year-old prodigy Bertie perseveres in his heroicstruggle for truth and balanced good sense against hisinsufferable mother and her crony, the psychotherapist DrFairbairn, going as far as to make a short-lived bid forfreedom on a trip to Paris with the Edinburgh youthochestra. Domenica sets off on an anthropological odysseywith pirates in the Malacca Straits, while Pat attractsseveral handsome admirers, including a toothsome suitornamed Wolf. And Big Lou, eternal source of coffee andgood advice to her friends, has love, heartbreak anderstwhile boyfriend Eddiersquo;s misdemeanours onher own mind.

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"This just in from Edinburgh: the complicated lives of the denizens of 44 Scotland Street are becoming no simpler. Domenica Macdonald has left for the Malacca Straits to conduct a perilous anthropological study of pirate households. Angus Lordie s dog, Cyril, has been stolen, and is facing an uncertain future wandering the streets. Bertie, the prodigiously talented six-year-old, is still enduring psychotherapy, but his burden is lightened by a junior orchestra's trip to Paris, where he makes some interesting new friends. Back in Edinburgh, there is romance for Pat with a handsome young man called Wolf, until she begins to see the attractions of the more prosaically named Matthew." "Teeming with McCall Smith s wonderful wit and charming depictions of Edinburgh, Love Over Scotland is another beautiful ode to a city and its people that continue to fascinate this astounding author."--BOOK JACKET.

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The third installment in Alexander McCall Smith's beloved 44 Scotland Street series is sure to delight his many fans. This just in from Edinburgh: the complicated lives of the denizens of 44 Scotland Street are becoming no simpler. Domenica Macdonald has left for the Malacca Straits to conduct a perilous anthropological study of pirate households. Angus Lordie's dog, Cyril, has been stolen, and is facing an uncertain future wandering the streets. Bertie, the prodigiously talented six-year-old, is still enduring psychotherapy, but his burden is lightened by a junior orchestra's trip to Paris, where he makes some interesting new friends. Back in Edinburgh, there is romance for Pat with a handsome young man called Wolf, until she begins to see the attractions of the more prosaically named Matthew. Teeming with McCall Smith's wonderful wit and charming depictions of Edinburgh, "Love Over Scotland" is another beautiful ode to a city and its people that continue to fascinate this astounding author.