The Peppermint Tea Chronicles

The Peppermint Tea Chronicles

ISBN: 9781984897817
Publisher: Anchor Books (Penguin Random House)
Publication Date: 3 December 2019
The thirteenth book in the 44 Scotland Street series

To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose; it is summer in Scotland Street (as it always is) and for the habitués of Edinburgh’s favourite street some extraordinary adventures lie in waiting.

For the impossibly vain Bruce Anderson – he of the clove-scented hair gel – it may finally be time to settle down, and surely it can only be a question of picking the lucky winner from the hordes of his admirers. The Duke of Johannesburg is keen to take his flight of fancy, a microlite seaplane, from the drawing board to the skies. Big Lou is delighted to discover that her young foster son has a surprising gift for dance but she is faced with big decisions to make on his and her futures. And with Irene now away to pursue her research in Aberdeen, her husband, Stuart, and infinitely long-suffering son, Bertie, are free to play. Stuart rekindles an old friendship over peppermint tea whilst Bertie and his friend Ranald Braveheart Macpherson get more they bargained for from their trip to the circus. And that’s just the start …

Once more we catch up with the delightful goings-on in the fictitious 44 Scotland Street from Alexander McCall Smith … Bertie and the gang return for another series of heart-warming, laugh-out-loud escapades in Edinburgh’s favourite street. Told with all of McCall Smith’s customary charm and deftness, this will be your perfect summer read.

Reviews

‘Take a few minutes to relax with a cup of your favourite tea and savour the affairs of the world in microcosm, teeming with life’s loves and challenges. Little dramas writ large by the master chronicler of modern life and manners’
THE WEEK
‘Fragrant, refreshing, and soothing as a cup of—well, you know what’
KIRKUS REVIEWS
‘Not so much laugh out loud as chuckle out loud moments. Bertie Pollock is one of my favourite characters in fiction ever and keeping up with his adventures is something I look forward to doing every summer’
Reader Review, Goodreads.com