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Espresso Tales

By: Alexander McCall Smith
Narrated by: Hilary Neville
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In Espresso Tales, Alexander McCall Smith returns home to Edinburgh and the glorious cast of his own tales of the city, the residents of 44 Scotland Street, with a new set of challenges for each one of them. Bruce, the intolerably vain and perpetually deluded ex-surveyor, is about to embark on a new career as a wine merchant, while his long-suffering flatmate Pat MacGregor, set up by matchmaking Domenica Macdonald, finds herself invited to a nudist picnic in Moray Place in the pursuit of true love. Prodigious six-year-old Bertie Pollock wants a boy's life of fishing and rugby, not yoga and pink dungarees, and he plots rebellion against his bossy, crusading mother Irene and his psychotherapist Dr Fairbairn. But when Bertie's longed-for trip to Glasgow with his ineffectual father Stuart ends with Bertie taking money off legendary Glasgow hard man Lard O'Connor at cards, it looks as though Bertie should have been more careful what he wished for. And all the time it appears that both Irene Pollock and Dr Fairbairn are engaged in a struggle with dark secrets and unconscious urges of their own.

©2005 Alexander McCall Smith (P)2011 Hachette Digital Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Urban Scotland

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so enjoy these stories of Scotland Street & all the characters who live there

I love this series

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I think that Alexander McCall smiths series of 44 Scotland street books are absolutely excellent. It is amusing and you feel like you are sitting in Irene's house seeing her talk about the bus Bertie should take or at Dominicas house listening to her adventures In India I love them. I highly recommend.

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Amusing stories from the delightful characters from 44Scotland Street. Well narrated and wonderfully relaxing to listen to.

Amusing stories

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very well narrated and detailed tale of everyday life in Edinburgh with some quirky twists and turns to keep you interested.

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Love Alexander McCall Smiths books. Really well read by Hilary Neville. Enjoying listening to Pat and Berties adventures. Would recommend.

Brilliant as ever!

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