Another McCall Smith novel is always a cause for rejoicing. The one is the latest in the 44 Scotland Street series revolving about a group of people who live in the Edinburgh New Town neighborhood, their ordinary doings and occasional adventures. There is six-year-old Bertie who longs to be seven and to escape the regimen of yoga and Italian lessons and psychotherapy imposed upon him by his self-absorbed mother Irene. There is Matthew and his new wife Elspeth embarking on the seas of matrimony (as it were) with no charts or compass. And there is Angus Lordie the artist with his dog Cyril, slowly feeling his way towards a deeper relationship with his longtime friend, Domenica Macdonald.
As always in McCall Smith's world, most people's intention are good even when their actions are confused, and the resulting problems can be sorted with patience, good humor and common sense. His stories are modern parables, showing us by example how to navigate the moral complexities that imbue each and every day of our lives..
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