My Italian Bulldozer

Wait, did I write this book? Fan fiction written as an homage to No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency?

Note these similarities to No. 1:

(1) Characters go to a laid-back place.
(2) Main character has been hurt by love.
(3) Their work comes easily to our main characters.
(4) Very, very light romance.
(5) Minor characters are all very kick-back.
(6) Very little plot.
(7) The author spends a lot of time inside the head of the kind main characters.
(8) No real villains.

So there you have it.

I enjoyed this book! It was a pleasant foray into the Italian countryside with some interesting characters. And a bulldozer. I have read lots of McCall Smith books, and I would say this is the best one in recent years.

Reread in 2022 for book club. First read in May 2019. Vivid and clean. Simple prose and yet, so moving and often quite funny. I saw another reviewer call McCall Smith a palette cleanser. What an apt observation.