by Alexander McCall Smith · Abacus · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780349118970
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«44 Scotland Street» is the contemporary fiction novel by Alexander McCall Smith, published by Abacus in paperback (336 pages, in English).
Pat, twenty years old, rents a room at 44 Scotland Street in Edinburgh. Her roommate, Bruce, is a narcissistic surveyor, and among her neighbors are the erudite widow Domenica and Bertie, a saxophone prodigy dominated by his mother. At the gallery where she works, Pat believes a painting could be an unknown work by a famous Scottish painter.
First installment of the «44 Scotland Street» series; the action takes place in a fictional building on a real Edinburgh street.
Aimed at readers of British humor and contemporary fiction, including book clubs interested in novels of manners.
Sir Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith is a Scottish legal scholar and author of fiction. He was born and brought up in Southern Rhodesia and was formerly Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. He became an expert on medical law and bioethics and served on related British and international committees. He has since become known as a fiction writer, with sales in English exceeding 40 million by 2010 and translations into 46 languages. He is known as the creator of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. The "McCall" derives from his great-great-grandmother Bethea McCall, who married James Smith at Glencairn, Dumfries-shire, in 1833.
