By Alexander McCall Smith
The citizens and associates of forty four Scotland highway and town of Edinburgh come to vibrant existence in those lightly satirical, splendidly perceptive serial novels, that includes six-year-old Bertie, a remarkably precocious boy—just ask his mom.
Featuring all of the quirky characters we have now come to grasp and love, The insufferable Lightness of Scones, reveals Bertie, the precocious six-year-old, nonetheless afflicted through his really overbearing mom, Irene, yet looking his break out within the Cub Scouts. Matthew is emerging to the problem of married existence with newfound power and unravel, whereas Domenica epitomizes the loneliness of the long-distance highbrow. Cyril, the gold-toothed megastar of the total exhibit, succumbs to the type of romantic temptation that no puppy can withstand and creates a small challenge, or fairly six of them, for his pal and proprietor Angus Lordie.
With his time-honored deftness, Alexander McCall Smith once more brings us an soaking up and pleasing story of a few of Scotland's so much quirky and loved characters--all set within the attractive, stoic urban of Edinburgh.
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Why? Thomasina: Everything is turned to love with her. New love, absent love, lost love I never knew a heroine that makes such noodles of our sex. It only needs a Roman general to drop anchor outside the window and away goes the empire like a christening mug into a pawn shop. If Queen Elizabeth had been a Ptolemy history would have been quite different -we would be admiring the pyramids of Rome and the great Sphinx of Verona. Septimus: God save us. Thomasina: But instead, the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue.
You got them backwards, darling. Caroline was Romantic waffle on wheels with no talent, and Byron was an eighteenth-century Rationalist touched by genius. And he killed Chater. Hannah: (Pause) If it's not too late to change my mind, I'd like you to go ahead. Bernard: I intend to. Look to the mote in your own eye! - you even had the wrong bloke on the dust-jacket! Hannah: Dust-jacket? Valentine: What about my computer model? Aren't you going to mention it? Bernard: It's inconclusive. Valentine: (To Hannah) The Piccadilly reviews aren't a very good fit with Byron's other reviews, you see.
It's no fun when it's not among pros, is it? Hannah: No. Bernard: Oh, well. . (he begins to put his lecture sheets away in his briefcase, and is thus reminded. ) do you want to know about your book jacket? 'Lord Byron and Caroline Lamb at the Royal Academy'? Ink study by Henry Fuseli? Hannah: What about it? Bernard: It's not them. Hannah: (She explodes) Who says!? ) Bernard: This Fuseli expert in the Byron Society Journal. They sent me the latest... as a distinguished guest speaker. Hannah: But of course it's them!