"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"--
Bertie?'s Guide to Life

Alexander McCall Smith: Bertie?'s Guide to Life (2013, Little, Brown Book Group Limited)
336 pages
English language
Published 2013 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.