Author Alexander McCall Smith became a worldwide sensation with his No. 1 Ladies'' Detective Agency novels. His award-winning wit is fully on display in this charming work. Here, in delightfully authentic sketches, are all the archetypes of Edinburgh society. There is the surveyor who dreams of a membership in Muirfield golf club. There is the pushy Stockbridge mother. There is the intellectual lady who sees herself as part of a much larger world. These characters and more confront issues of trust, love, and loss.
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Alexander McCall Smith (Zimbabue, 1948) es un reconocido autor de novelas juveniles en el Reino Unido, pero sin duda se le conoce a nivel internacional gracias a la serie La primera agencia de mujeres detectives.