ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
Description: First published in episodes in The Scotsman newspaper, 44 Scotland Street revolves around the comings and goings at 44 Scotland Street, a fictitious building in a real street in Edinburgh. In this first volume we meet the chartered surveyor, stalwart of the Conservative Association, who dreams of membership of Scotland´s most exclusive golf club; the pushy Stockbridge mother and her prodigiously talented five-year-old son who is making good progress with the saxophone and with his Italian; and Domenica Macdonald who is that type of Edinburgh lady who sees herself as a citizen of a broader intellectual world. This is vintage McCall Smith, tackling issues of trust and honesty, snobbery and hypocrisy, love and loss, but all with great lightness of touch.