44 Scotland Street
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: 44 Scotland Street -- 1; 44 Scotland Street -- 1.
Publisher: Paragon
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9781405613538; 9781405613521
Subjects: Young women; Fiction
Other titles: Forty-four Scotland Street
Description: Alexander McCall Smith's Scotland Street occupies a busy, bohemian corner of Edinburgh's New Town, where the old haute bourgeoisie finds itself having to rub shoulders with students, poets and portraitists. And number 44 has more than its fair share of the street's eccentrics and failures. When Pat - on her second gap year and a source of some worry to her parents - is accepted as a new tenant at number 44, she isn't quite sure how long she'll last. Her flatmate Bruce, a rugby-playing chartered surveyor, is impossibly narcissistic, carelessly philandering and infuriatingly handsome. Downstairs lives the gloriously pretentious Irene, whose precocious five-year-old is in therapy after setting fire to his father's copy of the Guardian. And then there is the shrewd, intellectual Domenica MacDonald, mysteriously employed but a sharp-eyed observer of the house's activities in her spare time ...