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La’s Orchestra Saves the World

novel by McCall Smith

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  • Alexander McCall Smith
    In Alexander McCall Smith

    …he also published the novel La’s Orchestra Saves the World, which centres on a newly divorced young woman who founds an amateur orchestra during World War II. McCall Smith himself had conceived such an ensemble in Edinburgh in 1995; it was known as the Really Terrible Orchestra. McCall Smith also…

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