Home / Books by Region / Edinburgh and Lothians / The Private Side of Friendship The Private Side of Friendship by Alexander McCall Smith The Private Side of Friendship SKU: 9781846977299 Categories: Birlinn Bestsellers, Birlinn/Polygon, Edinburgh and Lothians, Fiction £17.99 It is 1984, and the UK is experiencing a moment of great significance: the miners’ strike. In mining communities throughout the country, passions run high as the confrontation between the Government and the miners is notched up. In the affected communities, there is real hardship as the families of striking miners go without. In slow motion, an old way of life is brought to an end. In Edinburgh, in a large flat overlooking the Meadows, six students are facing the end of an academic year, preparing to go their separate ways in a changing world. Over three years, they drift apart through the twists and turns of life, before meeting up for a reunion in 1987, for what may well be their last evening together. It 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.   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. ISBN: 9781846977299 Publication date: 03/10/2025 Format: Hardback Extent: 272 Publisher: Birlinn Categories: Birlinn Bestsellers , Birlinn/Polygon , Edinburgh and Lothians , Fiction You may also like… Perfect Passion Company £9.99 The Pavilion in the Clouds £8.99 The Winds from Further West £9.99