The Prime of Bertie Pollock
A 44 Scotland Street Novel
by Alexander McCall Smith
£17.99
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Reviews
In its wonderfully entertaining pages you will find love, tolerance and joy, a little poetry and some good home truths
Sunday Post
The ever-so-deft McCall Smith has a light hand on the tiller in this amusing intergenerational tale
Scottish Field
Positivity and finding comfort in the everyday are arguably the defining features of McCall Smith's extensive literary back catalogue of more than 100 novels
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About the Book
To find out where we are going, we sometimes need to find out where we came from.
Sister Maria-Fiore dei Fiori Montagna, who is suffering from an acute identity crisis, wants to know more about her own past, and after doing a DNA test, she discovers that she has a relative she didn’t know about. But her new-found family causes a rift between her and her flatmate, Antonia Collie. Can they work out their differences?
For Bruce, it’s a case of history repeating itself. After getting all the attention he craves – landing a starring role in a new television series – the universe has one way of putting him in his place. Even in a modern Scotland, lurking Calvinist tendencies might still strike.
And Bertie’s dream of getting to the promised land – the Dear Green Place – comes crashing down as he learns that he is to move to the far North East, leaving poor Ranald Braveheart Macpherson a little heartbroken and lost. But upon his return to Edinburgh, the boys take a trip to the Palace of Holyroodhouse, and Bertie’s kindness gets a very royal recognition.
The Author
Alexander McCall Smith
Alexander McCall Smith is the author of the highly successful No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, which has sold over twenty-five million copies. Since then he has devoted his time to the writing of fiction and has seen his various series of books translated into over forty-six languages and become bestsellers throughout the world. These include the 44 Scotland Street novels, first published as a serial novel in the Scotsman, the Isabel Dalhousie novels, the Von Igelfeld series and the Corduroy Mansions novels.
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