44 Scotland Street
First published in 110 episodes in The Scotsman newspaper, 44 SCOTLAND STREET revolves around the comings and goings at No. 44 Scotland Street, a fictitious building in a real street in the author's home city of Edinburgh. One of McCall Smith's particular talents is his ability to portray...
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First published in 110 episodes in The Scotsman newspaper, 44 SCOTLAND STREET revolves around the comings and goings at No. 44 Scotland Street, a fictitious building in a real street in the author's home city of Edinburgh. One of McCall Smith's particular talents is his ability to portray archetypes without resorting to stereotype or cliche. We immediately recognise 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. 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.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781419333835 (1419333836)
Publish date: June 14th 2005
Publisher: Recorded Books
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Humor,
Funny,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
Scotland,
Fiction
Aargh! I typed out a review and it obviously didn't save - darn you, Goodreads app!Anyway, 3.5 stars, blah blah, pleasantly surprised, blah blah, will read more in the series. Bah!
Made me want to go to Edinburgh! Unlike the Number 1 Ladies' Detective series, this series of books aren't mysteries at all. But that's OK. No one reads McCall Smith to find out "who dunnit." This book was written in short segments that were serialized in a Scottish newspaper, so it's perfect for re...
Im glad I persevered... but by the time I got to the end, my initial impressions seem to have been confirmed.
Own HB but back away in horror at it. Will Auntie save the day?hah!A dramatisation of Alexander McCall Smith's acclaimed series based on the residents of a fictitious tenement building in a real Edinburgh New Town street, inspired by Maupin's Tales of The City.Blurb - Anthropologist Domenica MacDona...
There's really not a lot I can say about this. It was a vaguely entertaining, vaguely amusing read. I wouldn't rule out reading more Alexander McCall Smith but I certainly won't be rushing out to buy the others.
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