Description

In Edinburgh’s New Town, the lives of colourful neighbours at number 44 intertwine: Pat moves in with Bruce, the self-assured flatmate; Domenica Macdonald watches with sharp sympathy; and Irene Pollock turns parenting into performance as her gifted (and difficult) son navigates music and rules. With charm and gentle wit, the novel explores everyday trust, hypocrisy, snobbery, love, and loss through small social dramas and big character quirks.