Bertie's guide to life and mothers

By Alexander McCall Smith

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

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"--