ESPRESSO TALES: THE LATEST FROM 44 SCOTLAND STREET
by SMITH, ALEXANDER MCCALL
List Price: HK$ 135.00
¡@ISBN
9780349119700
¡@Subject
FICTION
¡@Publisher
ABACUS UK
¡@Publication
2006
¡@Edition
Paperback
¡@Version
Original
¡@Description
In Espresso Tales, Alexander McCall Smith returns home to Edinburgh and the glorious cast of his own tales of the city, the residents of 44 Scotland Street, with a new set of challenges for each one of them. Bruce, the intolerably vain and perpetually deluded ex-surveyor, is about to embark on a career as a wine merchant, while his long-suffering flatmate Pat Macgregor, set up by matchmaking Domenica Macdonald, finds herself invited to a nudist picnic in Moray Place in the pursuit of true love. Prodigious six-year-old Bertie Pollock wants a boy¡¦s life of fishing and rugby, not yoga and pink dungarees, and he plots rebellion against his bossy, crusading mother Irene and his psychotherapist Dr Fairbairn¡K
