The third volume in McCall Smith's newest series about the dotty inhabitants of a somewhat worn but comfortable block of flats in London's newly re-gentrified Pimlico neighborhood.
There's Berthea Snark, a successful psychiatrist coping with a brother who lives on a plane of existence utterly divorced from reality, and a son even the most determined mother cannot love until he has a close encounter with the Large Hadron Collider. Literary agents Barbara Ragg and Rupert Porter, locked in an uneasy partnership inherited from their fathers, are still battling over the ownership of Barbara's flat and the right to represent the author of The Autobiography of a Yeti. Caroline Jarvis is still searching for romance in the big city (and about to find it in the last place she expected). William French's slacker son Eddie seems perfectly content to spend the rest of his life mooching off his wealthy girlfriend, Merle --- which gets him out of William's flat, but does not relieve his father's mind. And worst of all, William's best friend's wife has just confessed to a secret passion for William, much to his dismay; and in the midst of all this, William's much loved Pimlico terrier, Freddie de la Hay, is missing and presumed gone forever.
But never fear; in McCall Smith's quiet and cozy little microcosm, all these tangled webs and moral conundrums get sorted out in the end with copious applications of patience, humor, and affection.
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