Heavenly Date: And Other Flirtations
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From the author of the massive New York Times best-selling series The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency comes a collection of short stories that have us visiting in on romantic encounters in exotic locales around the globe.In these hilarious stories of perverse meetings, casual dates, and romantic encounters, we are enthralled, saddened, inspired, and surprised by the encounters we're made privy to. Alexander McCall Smith, a master of the unexpected and a seamless storyteller, revels in offering us the quirky complications inherent in entanglements that human beings engineer for themselves-entanglements that can be shocking, edifying, compulsive, complicated, and, sometimes, completely disastrous.This is an exceptional collection of stories from an author whose wide audience delights in his extraordinary imagination and delicious insights into the endlessly fascinating peculiarities of the human condition.Publishers WeeklySmith's stories nimbly examine the mysteries of dating in this captivating collection . . . with their light humor and touching moments.
Wonderful Date1Nice Little Date19Bulawayo30Far North90Intimate Accounts111Calwarra132Fat Date147Maternal Influence158Heavenly Date176
