Brilliant unique and beautiful Transported to Scotland Canada and Australia beautifully descriptive。 Wonderful characters humorous witty and with integrity I was utterly totally immersed
Nick Morice-Jones,
Delightful reading as alwaysAlexander McCall Smith never fails to delight, even though his books always follow a similar theme, a familiarly bucolic theme, with a gentle moral tone, coupled with observations on life that are familiar to all of us。 The characters as always are easily relate-able to characters and characteristics so familiar to us all, which is what makes his books such a joy to read。I do hope this is not a one off, but the start of another compelling series。
Ruth,
4。5Read & reviewed for The Bookbag: http://www。thebookbag。co。uk/reviews/T。。。 4。5Read & reviewed for The Bookbag: http://www。thebookbag。co。uk/reviews/T。。。 。。。more
Laura Hill,
Thank you to Vintage and NetGalley for providing an advance copy of this book in exchange for my honest review。 The book will be published on February 13th, 2024。A new offering from Alexander McCall Smith — possibly the beginning of a new series。 Katie has taken on management of the Perfect Passion Company — a matchmaking service with the personal touch。 She is aided by the knitwear-designing, gorgeous but unavailable, William next door。 Together they face a number of difficult-to-place candidat Thank you to Vintage and NetGalley for providing an advance copy of this book in exchange for my honest review。 The book will be published on February 13th, 2024。A new offering from Alexander McCall Smith — possibly the beginning of a new series。 Katie has taken on management of the Perfect Passion Company — a matchmaking service with the personal touch。 She is aided by the knitwear-designing, gorgeous but unavailable, William next door。 Together they face a number of difficult-to-place candidates and manage to find matches for all in a typical McCall Smith simplistic, but effective and empathetic, approach to every day human problems (very reminiscent of Mma Ramtoswe’s style in the Number One Ladies Detective series)。I completely enjoyed reading this book with its emphasis on kindness and making a positive difference in people’s lives, though I admit to being slightly more annoyed than usual by some of the principles that inform his characters。 Some are kind and empathic but also (IMO) weak, allowing themselves to be taken advantage of and turning the other cheek (they happen to be rich which I guess helps)。 There is also some not-too-subtle demonizing of the Right with, for example, some (very negative) descriptions of “libertarians” that don’t map to any of the libertarians I’ve ever met。 However, as always I loved his ability to see people from different viewpoints and (except for the libertarian) accept people for who they are and acknowledge that they can still find happiness and love despite some very annoying (and pretty humorous) characteristics。 。。。more