Dream Angus

Alexander McCall Smith retells the myth of Dream Angus.Alexander McCall Smith has sold over 7.5 million books in the English language alone. This is one of the highest-profile titles to be launched in "The Myths" series, which has sold over 200,000 copies to date. It is backed by a high-profile marketing and publicity campaign, including outdoor poster sites; national press; advertising and dreaming of angus micrositeDreams to sell, fine dreams to sell...If he's in the right mood, divine Angus might grant you sight of your true love in a dream; you might even fall in love with him - but he'll never love you back. He's too busy making mischief - stealing the palace of the gods from his father, turning his enemies into pigs etc - until he is trapped by his own romantic games and falls for an unattainable woman, doomed to seek her forever.In twentieth-century Scotland, Angus' troubled alter ego searches for his true family and identity; a psychotherapist who helps people understand their dreams, his life seems to parallel that of his mythic namesake, until we ask - could they be one and the same?Mesmerically weaving together the tales of the Celtic god and the Scottish scientist, Alexander McCall Smith unites dream and reality, leaving us to wonder: what is life, but the pursuit of our dreams?