Bertie's guide to life and mothers

By Alexander McCall Smith

Subjects: FICTION / Family Life, FICTION / Humorous, Edinburgh (scotland), fiction, 44 Scotland Street (Edinburgh, Scotland : Imaginary place), Englisch, Large type books, Manners and customs, FICTION, Family Life, Fiction, family life, Fiction, humorous, general, Dogs, Roman, Fiction, Urban Life, Social life and customs, Fiction, humorous, Man-woman relationships, Birthday parties, Sleepwalking, Apartment life, Artists, Humorous, FICTION / Urban Life, Family life

Description: "Newlywed painter and sometime somnambulist Angus Lordie might be sleepwalking his way into trouble with Animal Welfare when he lets his dog Cyril drink a bit too much lager at the local bar. The longsuffering Bertie, on the cusp of his seventh birthday party, has taken to dreaming about his eighteenth, a time when he will be able to avoid the indignity of unwanted girl attendees and the looming threat of a gender-neutral doll from his domineering mother Irene"--