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Grandi cambiamenti al numero 44 di Scotland Street. Domenica è partita per lo stretto di Malacca per condurre una ricerca antropologica sui pirati, e a occupare l’appartamento dell’ultimo piano è arrivata la sua amica Antonia. Bruce si è trasferito a Londra e Pat, la sua simpatica inquilina, dopo ben due anni sabbatici, ha iniziato l’università e ha cambiato casa. E il povero Matthew? Sempre innamorato di lei. Chissà che stavolta non venga ricambiato… Per fortuna c’è anche chi rimane: Angus Lordie e il suo cane Cyril frequentano ancora le strade e i bar della New Town edimburghese; il piccolo Bertie, sassofonista prodigioso, continua a deliziare i vicini con le note di As Time Goes By, mentre la madre Irene è quasi giunta al termine di una seconda gravidanza che ne ha esasperato il non facile carattere…
In compagnia di questi e di molti altri esuberanti personaggi, Alexander McCall Smith ci invita a seguirlo ancora una volta alla scoperta di Edimburgo e dei suoi segreti.
- ISBN: 8850233620
- Casa Editrice: TEA
- Pagine: 354
- Data di uscita: 23-01-2014
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Alexander McCall Smith’s characters run the gamut. Gangster, pirate, mother, child prodigy, artist, student, psychotherapist, anthropologist - one of these will remind you of someone you know and their gentle message will ring true. This continues to be a series that simply makes me happy. It’s pota Leggi tutto
I can't help myself. I start one of Smith's novels thinking something like, "Well, this will just be more of the same." Forgetting, of course, how much I enjoyed the last one. Before you know it, I'm laughing out loud and find I have a hard time putting the book down to, say, sleep. His sense of hum Leggi tutto
My mother loved this author and read everything she could find that he wrote. I lost my mother in 2018 at the age of 95...so I have tried to read at least one or more of her favorite authors every year. Our tastes varied greatly to say the least, but we found equal joy in Alexander McCall Smith. Her Leggi tutto
Another gentle offering from Edinburgh. And it's rather nice, what with death, disease, global warming, and possible financial disaster in the headlines, to escape into the more manageable problems of those living in and around 44 Scotland Street. The last "44 Scotland Street novel" I read was The Wo Leggi tutto
As always, Bertie is my favorite, with the adventures of Pat and Matthew coming in close behind. I admit to being a bit bored by Domenica MacDonald in the Malacca Straits, because it just seemed so odd without being odd enough. I enjoyed this reader, though, because he does an excellent job sounding Leggi tutto
I find it difficult to understand why people dislike Alexander McCall Smith. I can kinda see them not getting the point (I can't get the point of Henry James, which is much more literarily embarrassing), but I'm not sure why you'd dislike him. I guess you might find him twee? Anyway, I love his books Leggi tutto
Alexander McCall Smith is my go-to author when I need a comfort read, especially his 44 Scotland Street series. I wasn’t particularly in need of being comforted (but had recently read Dostoyevsky, which comes to the same thing), and once in a while I love dipping my toes into a cosy atmosphere of co Leggi tutto
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