Love over Scotland - Alexander McCall Smith

44 SCOTLAND STREET - Book 3

The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderfully perceptive serial novels, featuring six-year-old Bertie, a remarkably precocious boy-just ask his mother.

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.