It is said that a picture may be worth a thousand words but an old photograph can inspire many more. In this beguiling book, Alexander Mc Call Smith casts his eye over five chanced-upon photographs from the era of black-&-white photography & imagines the stories behind them. Who were those people, what were their stories, why are they smiling, what made them sad? What emerges are surprising & poignant tales of love & friendship in a variety of settings
- an estate in the Highlands of Scotl&, a travelling circus in Canada, an Australian gold-mining town, a village in Irel&, & the Scottish capital, Edinburgh. Some will find joy & fulfilment
- others would prefer happier endings. Each of them, though, will find love, & that is ultimately what matters.