In Espresso Tales, Alexander Mc Call 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.
關於作者:
McCall Smith is a Emeritus Professor of Medical Law as well as
an author who has written over 50 books on a wide range of
subjects: from Forensic Aspects of Sleep to The Criminal Law of
Botswana, The Perfect Hamburger children''s fiction to The 2 12
Pillars of Wisdom.