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originality and literary mastery

From minor lapses (why we're so likely to forget passwords) to life-threatening blunders (why anaesthetists used to maim their patients)

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44 Scotland Street. Alexander McCall Smith sports comparable with the work ofThe story revolves around the comings and goings at No. 44 Scotland Street, a fictitious building in a real street in Edinburgh. Immediately recognisable are the Edinburgh chartered surveyor, stalwart of the Conservative Association, who dreams of membership of Scotland's most exclusive golf club. We have the pushy Stockbridge mother, and her prodigiously talented five year old son, who is making good progress with the saxophone and with his Italian.