Several colorful residents weave their way through the books along with friends, relatives and other assorted hangers-on. It is a Georgian-era townhouse apartment building the type that boasts high ceilings, a spiral staircase and questionable plumbing. The center of all this activity is the eponymous 44 Scotland Street, an unreal address on a very real street. I spent an afternoon exploring the New Town in search of some of the locations referenced in the books. (Note: the “New Town” was built in the late 18 th & early 19 th centuries, history runs deep in Edinburgh.)
I am a fan of the 44 Scotland Street novels by Alexander McCall Smith. The author chronicles the fictitious, but very realistic, goings-on of a group of residents in Edinburgh’s New Town.
I had visited the city many times “virtually,” through reading. From Larissa ~ Although this was my first trip to Edinburgh, I felt as though I already knew the place.
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