It was a chance encounter with Armistead Maupin (of Tales of the City fame) in San Francisco which inspired Alexander McCall Smith to write his daily novel about the residents of 44 Scotland Street, a fictitious building in a real street in the author's home town of Edinburgh. With its multiple-occupancy flats, Scotland Street is an interesting corner of the city, verging on the Bohemian, where haute bourgeoisie rub shoulders with students and the more colourful members of the intelligentsia. The comings and goings at 44 ...
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It was a chance encounter with Armistead Maupin (of Tales of the City fame) in San Francisco which inspired Alexander McCall Smith to write his daily novel about the residents of 44 Scotland Street, a fictitious building in a real street in the author's home town of Edinburgh. With its multiple-occupancy flats, Scotland Street is an interesting corner of the city, verging on the Bohemian, where haute bourgeoisie rub shoulders with students and the more colourful members of the intelligentsia. The comings and goings at 44 Scotland Street first made their way into print in The Scotsman newspaper in the first half of 2004. Espresso Tales features further escapades from the fringes of the New Town which appeared in The Scotsman during 2005. This new novel gives Scotland Street aficionados a chance to catch up with the occupants of what must surely be Edinburgh's most well-known literary address, and to meet more of the inhabitants of this unique corner of the city. Espresso Tales is vintage McCall Smith, tackling issues of trust and honesty, snobbery and hypocrisy, love and loss, but all with great lightness of touch. Clever, elegant and funny, this is a novel that provides huge entertainment but which is underpinned by the moral dilemmas of everyday life and the characters' struggles to resolve them.
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Espresso Tales is book 2 of the 44 Scotland Street seires. It was chosen as "stand alone" read for my book club and frankly, I think it can still hold its own without reading the first one. How would I describe it? A charming, Scottish Soap Opera. AMS's prose is light and swift without too many vernacular phrases so that even an American such as myself may understand. I would call this a good "cappucino" type book (in keeping with the coffee theme).
mamacat13
Nov 23, 2007
Good to the last drop
If you liked 44 Scotland Street, you'll love Espresso Tales. All of your favorite characters are back, plus a few you'll want to meet. Alexander McCall Smith has the gift of portraying everyday people doing everyday things and making us like them. The "newspaper serial" format is perfect for these stories. You can read a quick three pages and walk away wanting more. (Just kidding...I've never been able to stop after one installment!) While you're buying, you might as well go ahead and order Love Over Scotland, since you'll be wanting to read it, too. (For fans of the other Alexander McCall Smith series: These characters are just as endearing and irresistable as Precious, Grace, JLB Matekoni, and/or Isabel. Take the plunge!)