Marta asked Alexander McCall Smith:

Why do you set all Isabel's novel in late summer spring/early summer? (I read up to the 7th novel, I don't know if in the others it's the same)

Alexander McCall Smith I think that is possibly because when Scotland is at its best. Our winter can be very inhospitable! AMcS

If you could choose to have coffee with only one of the characters you created, which one would it be?

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