This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2022 by Alexander McCall Smith
Map copyright © 2011 by Iain McIntosh
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Little, Brown, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, a Hachette UK company, London, in 2022.
Pantheon Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.
Excerpts from the poems of W. H. Auden appear courtesy of Edward Mendelson, Executor of the Estate of W. H. Auden, and Penguin Random House LLC.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Name: McCall Smith, Alexander, [date] author.
Title: The sweet remnants of summer / Alexander McCall Smith.
Description: First edition. New York : Pantheon Books, 2022. Series: An Isabel Dalhousie novel ; 14
Identifiers: LCCN 2022000208 (print). LCCN 2022000209 (ebook). ISBN 9780593316948 (hardcover). ISBN 9780593316955 (ebook).
Subjects: LCGFT: Novels.
Classification: LCC PR6063.C326 S94 2022 (print) | LCC PR6063.C326 (ebook) | DDC 823/.914—dc23/eng/20220105
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022000208
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022000209
Ebook ISBN 9780593316955
Cover illustration by Bill Sanderson
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