You can go through life and make new friends every year — every month practically — but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years.
—Alexander McCall Smith in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
—Alexander McCall Smith in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith, CBE, FRSE (born 24 August 1948), is a British legal scholar and author of fiction. He was raised in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and formerly Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. He became an expert on medical law and bioethics and served on...
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.