44 Scotland Street

44 Scotland Street

infobox Book |
name = 44 Scotland Street
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image_caption = First edition cover
author = Alexander McCall Smith
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country = Scotland
language = English
series =
genre = Serial novel
publisher = The Scotsman (serial), Polygon Press (book form)
release_date = 2004 to 2005 (orig. serial) March 2005 (complete novel)
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback) & Serial
pages = 368 pp (first edition, hardback)
isbn = ISBN 1-904598-16-1 (first edition, hardback)
preceded_by =
followed_by = Espresso Tales, "Love over Scotland",

"The World According to Bertie

"44 Scotland Street" is a novel by Alexander McCall Smith, the author of "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency". The story was first published as a serial novel in The Scotsman, starting January 26, 2004, every weekday, for six months. The book retains the 100+ short chapters of the original. It was partially influenced by Armistead Maupin’s "Tales of the City", a famous serial story.

Plot introduction

The novel tells the story of Pat, a student on her second gap year and a source of some worry to her parents, who is accepted as a new tenant at 44 Scotland Street in Edinburgh's New Town, and her various roommates and neighbours.

Smith followed the original serial novel with another series set in Edinburgh, The Sunday Philosophy Club Series.

Literary significance and reception

Publishers Weekly said that "44 Scotland Street" was "episodic, amusing and peopled with characters both endearing and benignly problematic."cite journal|date=April 25, 2005|title=44 Scotland Street|journal=Publishers Weekly|volume=Vol. 252|issue=Issue 17|pages=p35|issn=0000-0019] Library Journal said that "Smith's insightful and comic observations, makes for an amusing and absorbing look at Edinburgh society."cite journal|last=Core|first=Karen|date=May 1, 2005|title=44 Scotland Street|journal=Library Journal|volume=Vol. 130|issue=Issue 8|pages=p77|issn=0363-0277] Bookseller said that "the writing style is understated, and the humour subtle but at times devastating."cite journal|last=Millar|first=Alistair|date=February 16, 2007|title=READING FOR PLEASURE|journal=Bookseller; 2/16/2007|issue=Issue 5268|pages=p23|issn=00067539]

Notes

External links

* [http://www.randomhouse.com/features/mccallsmith/sunday/books.html Publisher's page for the book]
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400079445&view=excerpt First two chapters of the book]


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