The Private Side of Friendship A Standalone Novel

Edinburgh, 1984. Six students are facing the end of an academic year, preparing to go their separate ways in a changing world. Years later, they meet for a reunion, for what may well be their last evening together. It soon becomes clear to all that sometimes you have to let go of the past. You take away its lessons, but you let the rest go.

About the author

Alexander McCall Smith is the author of the highly successful No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, which has sold over twenty-five million copies. Since then he has devoted his time to the writing of fiction and has seen his various series of books translated into over forty-six languages and become bestsellers throughout the world. These include the 44 Scotland Street novels, first published as a serial novel in the Scotsman, the Isabel Dalhousie novels, the Von Igelfeld series and the Corduroy Mansions novels.

Product details

• Authors: Alexander McCall Smith, McCall Smith Alexander
• Publisher: BIRLINN LIMITED
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 01.10.2025
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9781846977299
• ISBN: 978-1-84697-729-9
• Dimensions (packing): 14.7 x 22.5 x 2.7 cm
• Subjects: FICTION / General, FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction & related items, Historical fiction, Fiction, Humorous fiction, c 1970 to c 1980, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Fiction: literary and general non-genre