Bertie's guide to life and mothers : a 44 Scotland Street novel /
McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-,
Bertie's guide to life and mothers : a 44 Scotland Street novel / Alexander McCall Smith ; illustrations by Iain McIntosh. - 295 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. - 44 Scotland Street novel ; 9 . - McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948- 44 Scotland Street series; 9. .
"Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Polygon, an imprint of Birlinn Ltd., Edinburgh, in 2013."
"Newlywed painter and sometime somnambulist Angus Lordie might be sleepwalking his way into trouble with Animal Welfare when he lets his dog Cyril drink a bit too much lager at the local bar. The longsuffering Bertie, on the cusp of his seventh birthday party, has taken to dreaming about his eighteenth, a time when he will be able to avoid the indignity of unwanted girl attendees and the looming threat of a gender-neutral doll from his domineering mother Irene"--
0804170002 (Anchor Books Trade Paperback) 9780804170000 (Anchor Books Trade Paperback)
2014039915
Edinburgh (Scotland)--Social life and customs--Fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Bertie's guide to life and mothers : a 44 Scotland Street novel / Alexander McCall Smith ; illustrations by Iain McIntosh. - 295 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. - 44 Scotland Street novel ; 9 . - McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948- 44 Scotland Street series; 9. .
"Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Polygon, an imprint of Birlinn Ltd., Edinburgh, in 2013."
"Newlywed painter and sometime somnambulist Angus Lordie might be sleepwalking his way into trouble with Animal Welfare when he lets his dog Cyril drink a bit too much lager at the local bar. The longsuffering Bertie, on the cusp of his seventh birthday party, has taken to dreaming about his eighteenth, a time when he will be able to avoid the indignity of unwanted girl attendees and the looming threat of a gender-neutral doll from his domineering mother Irene"--
0804170002 (Anchor Books Trade Paperback) 9780804170000 (Anchor Books Trade Paperback)
2014039915
Edinburgh (Scotland)--Social life and customs--Fiction.
Humorous fiction.