| 44 Scotland Street | 
 enlarge | Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
Publisher: Abacus
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 3289
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 4.7 x 0.9
ISBN: 0349118973
EAN: 9780349118970
ASIN: 0349118973
Publication Date: August 11, 2005
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 Highly enjoyable November 19, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I enjoyed this book, it wasn't as I'd expected. I didn't expect to laugh out loud, nor did I expect not being able to guess the end of the book! For a light read it was unusual and interesting.
 Please take me South! October 3, 2005
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Written in daily installments for the Scotsman newspaper, you're drawn into the lives of various characters inhabiting Edinburgh's exclusive, Georgian New Town. Scotland St being inhabited by some colourful characters in real life too (22a!) McCall Smith's ficticious creations nicely mirror my experience of Edinburgh. Much is amusing, most of it twee and comfortable. The poor Tories are erroneously labelled as South Edinburgh Conservatives (when I worked there we called ourselves Edinburgh South Conservatives). Years ago it was Tory seat held by the current Shadow Foreign Secretary but now deeply entrenched Scottish Labour with all the trappings (illiterate MP, thick accents barking socialism). McCall Smith pokes fun at the few remaining members of the constituency party, and takes them for a dinner at in Morningside. How predictable.For those ultimate parochialists, the good burghers of Edinburgh, I'm sure the daily installments provided an amusing giggle, and endless fun guessing the true identity of the characters. But by the half way mark I was desperate to walk up and over George St for the Waverley Station, and jump on the next GNER express to London. Edinburgh seems to revel in its insularity, its antipathy to all things English and celebrates stasis like nowhere else. Mr Mc Call Smith sees fit to celebrate this in this book.
Excellent September 21, 2005
5 out of 13 found this review helpful
You got a great feeling for both Scotland St as well as Edinburgh. The Characters were superb.
 A must-read! September 1, 2005
16 out of 21 found this review helpful
Here is Alexander McCall Smith's best book since The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. With great affection for his characters and never boring, he recounts a tale of love, friendship and the little misfortunes of the inhabitants of 44 Scotland Street. Highly amusing episodes are interspersed with stories of everyday human disappointment... This book will leave you a little happy, a little sad, and with quite a few things to think about!
charming August 22, 2005
16 out of 19 found this review helpful
Reading 44 Scotland Street is like sitting in warm bath. The world that Alexander McCall Smith portrays is safe and cosy and whilst the story bubbles along at a reasonably sedate pace it is by no means dull. Written originally as a serial for a newspaper the story doesn't suffer from this in any way and McCall Smith has not constructed the novel with a series of contrived cliff hangers but yet you are always left wanting more.
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