Love Over Scotland, Alexander McCall Smith
Love Over Scotland, Alexander McCall Smith
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Love Over Scotland

Author: Alexander McCall Smith

Narrator: Robert Ian Mackenzie

Unabridged: 14 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/26/2007

Synopsis

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.

About Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander McCall Smith is the author of over one hundred books on a wide array of subjects, including the award-winning The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. He is also the author of the Isabel Dalhousie novels and the world's longest-running serial novel, 44 Scotland Street. His books have been translated into forty-six languages. Alexander McCall Smith is Professor Emeritus of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh and holds honorary doctorates from thirteen universities. He was knighted by the King in 2024.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Judith on December 28, 2020

Alexander McCall Smith’s characters run the gamut. Gangster, pirate, mother, child prodigy, artist, student, psychotherapist, anthropologist - one of these will remind you of someone you know and their gentle message will ring true. This continues to be a series that simply makes me happy. It’s pota......more

Goodreads review by Ken on July 14, 2013

I can't help myself. I start one of Smith's novels thinking something like, "Well, this will just be more of the same." Forgetting, of course, how much I enjoyed the last one. Before you know it, I'm laughing out loud and find I have a hard time putting the book down to, say, sleep. His sense of hum......more

Goodreads review by Carol on January 15, 2022

My mother loved this author and read everything she could find that he wrote. I lost my mother in 2018 at the age of 95...so I have tried to read at least one or more of her favorite authors every year. Our tastes varied greatly to say the least, but we found equal joy in Alexander McCall Smith. Her......more

Goodreads review by Persephone on September 15, 2008

Another gentle offering from Edinburgh. And it's rather nice, what with death, disease, global warming, and possible financial disaster in the headlines, to escape into the more manageable problems of those living in and around 44 Scotland Street. The last "44 Scotland Street novel" I read was The Wo......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on February 03, 2020

As always, Bertie is my favorite, with the adventures of Pat and Matthew coming in close behind. I admit to being a bit bored by Domenica MacDonald in the Malacca Straits, because it just seemed so odd without being odd enough. I enjoyed this reader, though, because he does an excellent job sounding......more

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