44 Scotland Street: 44 Scotland Street (Series #1) (CD-Audio)

from etxgardener

I've read all of Alexander McCall Smith's #1 Ladies Detective Agency books, but have never ventured into his novels set in Scotland, so when I was offered an audio book of the first of his Scotland Street series, I jumped at it. And I was not disappointed. The interconnected stories of the inhabi...

from herschelian

A frothy cappucino of a book; light,funny, easy reading. It is the book that AMS wrote as a true serial in 'The Scotsman'. He was inspired to do it by a conversation with the author Armisted Maupin of San Francisco whose famous series "Tales of the City" has given him the structure of this book. ...

from Lindyloo

A funny, heartwarming story based around a collection of eccentric characters all living in Edinburgh. The story centres around Pat as she is accepted as a new tenant at No.44. There is an element of mystery as she and her new employer seek to discover whether a painting could really be a valuabl...

from SamuelW

Alexander McCall Smith's 44 Scotland Street is not really a novel. As its preface explains, it wasn't written as one, either. Each of its one-hundred-and-ten chapters was published individually, day by day, in the Edinburgh-based newspaper The Scotsman. As such, it exists not so much as a cohesiv...

from whitreidtan

Once The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency became popular, it seems like everyone raced out to read all the rest of what Alexander McCall Smith had written. So that probably means I am the last person on the planet to read this first book in the Scotland Street series. Interestingly though, I haven'...