Heavenly Date And Other Flirtations
By (Author) Alexander McCall Smith
Canongate Books
Canongate Books
5th September 2003
Main
United Kingdom
Paperback
208
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 13mm
144g
From the creator of The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency comes a medley of perverse couplings, casual dates and romantic encounters: hilarious tales that will also sadden, inspire and surprise. McCall Smith, a master of the unexpected and a seamless storyteller, revels in offering us the quirky complications inherent in entanglements which human beings engineer for themselves - entanglements that can be shocking, edifying, complex and sometimes, completely disastrous.
* The author's prose has the merits of simplicity, euphony and precision ... This is art that conceals art. I haven't read anything with such unalloyed pleasure for a long time. Sunday Telegraph * Reminiscent of Roald Dahl in their dark ironies, these tales of the emotional unexpected are perceptive, deftly written and droll. -- Michael Faber * The people who inhabit these stories are funny, shocking, middle-class and sinister, the author's wacky imagination being the only constant we can always take for granted. -- Alan Taylor The Scotsman
Alexander McCall Smith is the author of over fifty books, including the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of novels and several collections of short stories, including The Girl Who Married a Lion and Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations. In 2003 he was the winner of the UK's principal award for humorous writing, the Saga Award, and in the same year he won the Glenfiddich Award for Writing. Alexander McCall Smith lives in Scotland.