This is a lovely book, full of McCall Smith gentle wit and humour, wry observation and quirky characters. As usual nothing is resolved but the not-getting there is wonderful. It is about the lives of several people who live in Corduroy Mansions or thereabouts – William the wine shop owner, Marcia his would be lover, the girls in the flat downstairs, a politician called Oedipus and his mother and her brother and his girlfriend and her new lover. It’s a bit disjointed, almost unfinished, like a slice of life rather than a novel, or if it is novel, it’s unfinished. But I enjoyed it all the same. 3 stars
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