Bertie's guide to life and mothers / Alexander McCall Smith ; illustrations by Iain McIntosh.

Title:

ISBN:

9780804170000

Personal Author:

McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-

Publication Information:

New York : Anchor Books, 2015.

Physical Description:

295 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

General Note:

"Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Polygon, an imprint of Birlinn Ltd., Edinburgh, in 2013."

Summary:

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.

Geographic Term:

Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.

Subject Term:

44 Scotland Street (Edinburgh, Scotland : Imaginary place) -- Fiction

Apartment houses -- Fiction

Families--Scotland -- Fiction.

Genre:

Humorous fiction

Added Author:

McIntosh, Iain

Series Title:

44 Scotland Street series ;