44 SCOTLAND STREET PB B FORMAT – ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH

"Book 1 in the hugely popular 44 Scotland Street series by worldwide bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith Alexander McCall Smith s delightful Scotland Street occupies a busy, bohemian corner of Edinburgh s New Town, where the old bourgeoisie rubs shoulders with students, poets and eccentrics. When Pat is accepted as a new tenant at number 44 Scotland Street, she isn t sure how long she ll last. Her flatmate Bruce, a rugby-playing chartered surveyor, is impossibly narcissistic, carelessly philandering and infuriatingly handsome. Downstairs lives pretentious Irene Pollock, whose five-year-old son is in therapy after setting fire to his father s copy of the Guardian. And watching over them all is shrewd, intellectual Domenica Macdonald, anthropologist and sharp-eyed observer of the household s activities… PRAISE FOR THE 44 SCOTLAND STREET SERIES: Perfect escapist fiction The Times Simple, elegantly written and gently insightful Good Book Guide A joyous, charming portrait of city life and human foibles Sunday Express Does for Edinburgh what Armistead Maupin did for San Francisco… A light-hearted, genial soap opera Financial Times"