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Pianos and Flowers
Brief Encounters of the Romantic Kind
Synopsis
In Pianos and Flowers we are invited to glimpse a world long departed. In these stories, inspired by long-lost photographs, the lives of the people in the frame are imagined and then explored, layer by layer.
Three sisters brought up in Penang, caught in the tide of war.
A group of small boys in a Glasgow slum - their childhood blighted by poverty, their adult lives taking very different paths.
A young woman's search for love in the unlikely realm of Egyptian antiquities.
And through all of these photographs, and all of these stories, there runs the same refrain: the possibilities of love, of friendship, of happiness lie before us.
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What Reviewers Are Saying
'McCall Smith's expert handling of conflict and rich imagination make this one his fans will enjoy' * Publisher's Weekly * 'The beloved author invites us to glimpse a world long departed... from Glasgow slums to Egyptian relics, love, friendship and happiness are the central themes' * Scots Magazine * 'A picture paints a thousand words ... this book demonstrates the imagination and skill of McCall Smith to be able to create personal stories from something as simple as a photograph' * Dundee Courier, Scottish Book of the Week * 'A delightful compendium of short stories' * Edinburgh Life *