TY - BOOK AU - McCall Smith,Alexander AU - McIntosh,Iain TI - Bertie's guide to life and mothers: a 44 Scotland Street novel T2 - 44 Scotland Street novel SN - 0804170002 (Anchor Books Trade Paperback) PY - 2015/// CY - New York PB - Anchor Books, a division of Random House LLC KW - Edinburgh (Scotland) KW - Social life and customs KW - Fiction KW - Humorous fiction KW - gsafd N1 - "Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Polygon, an imprint of Birlinn Ltd., Edinburgh, in 2013." N2 - "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"-- ER -