Love over Scotland

This is the third in the 44 Scotland Street series written by Alexander McCall Smith. The series started as a serial novel written in one of the Scottish newspapers, The Scotsman, and blossomed into what it is now. I suppose what drew me to read the books was the fact that it is set in Edinburgh, Scotland's capital, and there are references to Glasgow as well. Mainly as the uneducated, seedy part of the country, but all the same, we are mentioned!
It is about the residents of 44 Scotland street and the people that they befriend. The lovely part about the series is that they are nothing more or less than the telling of people's lives, people that you can imagine meeting on a street in Edinburgh (where the book takes place), Glasgow, New York, Chicago, etc. The characters are wonderfully complex and make me want to read more and more about them. My favorite character so far is Bertie. He is a six year old boy who wants nothing more to be a six year old boy. But his mother is more than overbearing. She has him speaking fluent French by the age of four along with playing the tenor saxophone, attending psychotherapy, yoga, the Teenage Orchestra, and all the while working ahead on every subject. The mother is crazy and calls it all "The Bertie Project." I am pretty sure that everyone she meets, except the psychotherapist, thinks she's nuts which she is. But either way, the book is excellent and I really hope that another book in the series ensues.