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Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers
44 Scotland Street (Related to this series)
- Author
- Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrator
- David David Rintoul
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 5 June 2014
- Run Time
- 8 hours 45 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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Critics Review
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For an author to entertain and instruct with such effortless simplicity is one thing, but to achieve this effect upon readers is remarkable. I can think of no author save Dickens who has achieved it, and no author now writing currently more deserving of an enormous audience
New Statesman
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Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers lets us immediately relax, secure in the knowledge that we are in a safe pair of hands as McCall Smith is an engaging and a witty guide to the goings on (and comings off) at fictional 44 Scotland Street
Sunday Express
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Details
- Author
- Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrator
- David David Rintoul
- Duration
- 8 hours 45 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 June 2014
- ISBN
- 9781405531566
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Humorous fiction
Synopsis
As summer blooms in Edinburgh's gardens and Bertie Pollock's birthday appears on the horizon, all at 44 Scotland Street is not cake and sunshine. Newlywed Angus Lordie has been booked by his bride into what he must not call the loony bin; Bruce's first encounter with hot wax brings more anguish than he bargained for; and Bertie's birthday dreams of scout camp and a penknife look set to be replaced by a game of Royal Weddings and a gender-neutral doll. But fate, an amorous Bedouin and the Dubai Tourist Authority conspire to transport Bertie's mother Irene to a warmer - if not a better - place, and once again in Scotland Street the triumph of human kindness over adversity gives cause for celebration.
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