44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith

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. 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. And number 44 has more than its fair share of the street's eccentrics and failures. In McCall Smith’s hands such characters retain charm and novelty, simultaneously arousing both mirth and empathy. Alexander McCall Smith's Scotland Street occupies a busy, bohemian corner of Edinburgh's New Town, where the old haute bourgeoisie finds itself having to rub shoulders with students, poets and portraitists. Then there is Domenica Macdonald who is that type of Edinburgh lady who sees herself as a citizen of a broader intellectual world. 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. Immediately recognisable are the Edinburgh chartered surveyor, stalwart of the Conservative Association, who dreams of membership of Scotland’s most exclusive golf club. Redirecting to /whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/44-scotland-street-alexander-mccall-smiths-serial-novel-returns-in-the-scotsman-382216323::text.

44 Scotland Street, a fictitious building in a real street in Edinburgh. The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical. The story revolves around the comings and goings at No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Series brings his trademark warmth and wisdom to his novel chronicling the lives of the residents of 44 Scotland Street that’s ‘as charming as the bohemian street in which it’s set’ ( Scottish Daily Record)

44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith