The Unbearable Lightness of Scones (47 page)
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Authors: Alexander Mccall Smith
I see no other way but love.”
He finished. He may have had more words, but he could not utter them; not now. And nobody had anything to add to what he had said; no words of dispute or disagreement, for what he had said was all true, every word of it.
FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, JANUARY 2010
Copyright © 2008 by Alexander McCall Smith
Illustrations copyright © 2008 by Iain McIntosh
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
Originally published in Great Britain by Polygon, an imprint of Birlinn, Ltd., Edinburgh, in 2008.
Anchor Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
This book is excerpted from a series that originally appeared in
The Scotsman
newspaper.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948–
The unbearable lightness of scones / by Alexander McCall Smith. —1st
Anchor Books ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-47674-6
1. Apartment houses—Fiction. 2. Edinburgh (Scotland)—Social life
and customs—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6063.C326U53 2010
823′.914—dc22
2009035066
Author illustration © Iain McIntosh
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