by Alexander McCall Smith · Abacus · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780349120539
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«The World According to Bertie» is the humorous novel of everyday life by Alexander McCall Smith, published by Abacus in paperback (336 pages, in English).
The novel follows the residents of 44 Scotland Street in Edinburgh, with little Bertie as the connecting thread: as he grows up amid his mother's demands and the arrival of a brother, Pat, Matthew, Angus and Domenica experience romantic entanglements and everyday misunderstandings told with irony.
Fourth installment of the '44 Scotland Street' series by Alexander McCall Smith, published on April 24, 2008.
For readers of British humor and slice-of-life fiction, especially fans of the '44 Scotland Street' series or other novels by Alexander McCall Smith.
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.
