The unbearable lightness of scones

The unbearable lightness of scones

Alexander McCall Smith, 1948-

Sound recording - 2009

At 44 Scotland Street, six-year-old Bertie seeks escape in the Cub Scouts; Matthew rises to the challenge of married life; Domenica epitomizes the loneliness of the long-distance intellectual; and Cyril, the gold-toothed star of the whole show, succumbs to the kind of romantic temptation that no dog can resist and creates a small problem, or rather six of them, for his friend and owner Angus Lordie.

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Subjects
Apartment houses > Fiction.
Edinburgh (Scotland) > Social life and customs > Fiction.
Humorous stories.
Published
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books p2009.
Language
English
Main Author
Alexander McCall Smith, 1948- (-)
Edition
Unabridged
Item Description
Title from container.
Physical Description
12 audio discs (14 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in
ISBN
9781440731792
Contents unavailable.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

The fifth book in McCall Smith's 44 Scotland Street series re-visits the quirky characters of a tiny neighborhood of Edinburgh: aging Angus and his dog, young Matthew with his new bride, precocious six-year-old Bertie and his overbearing mother, and others. The dry humor and Wodehousian wit in the descriptions and observations of the eccentric characters give them charm, but the book is a study in ordinary people living ordinary lives, and the narrative is slow paced. Robert Ian Mackenzie's deep, sonorous voice is ideal for the exposition and the voices of the male characters, but that same rich masculine voice is a drawback when used for the dialogue of the female and child characters, who end up sounding stilted and impaired. An Anchor paperback (Reviews, Nov. 9). (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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