Help me find this novel?

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Hi

Wracking my brains trying to find this novel I loved and Google coming up with nothing. I remember nearly all the storyline haha but not the name or author.

Story set in Scotland, Glasgow I think. A young man living with parents studying medicine to be doctor like his dad but he wants to be an artist instead. I think it's set in 1920s. He has a sister. I feel like his name was Alexander Mc-something. His sister takes a job at an abortion clinic.

He meets a French woman and falls in love with her and moves to France in the end.

That's it for now. Please help I loved that book.

Anyone? I have cake

Bit of a long shot but is it listed in with these?

www.jordanhill.glasgow.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/scottish_fiction_reading_list_for_senior_pupils.pdf

Ok I admit that is a VERY long shot. Good luck hope you find it!

Not those but thanks anyway. I looked up novels set on Scotland bit couldn't find any that match. It was s good book too

No Mean City?

How long ago did you read it?

About 10-15 years ago perhaps.

Not no mean city. The protagonist was a young man studying to be a doctor but hated it and wanted to be an artist.

Trigger warning this bit...but his sister was raped in the book.

There's an author Alexander McCall Smith who has written books set in Scotland. I only read a couple though and have no idea what else he's written.

I was also thinking Alexander McCall Smith. 44 Scotland Street series? He also wrote the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency series.

Lanark: A Life in four books?

What genre was it? Do you remember the cover?

Cover was yellow and featured the French woman. I'm sure one of the names was Sophie.

It was a female author I'm pretty sure.

A. J. Cronin wrote books set in Scotland, many with a medical background.

Thanks for all the suggestions by the way. I feel like I'm making this up 😂

It was more of a love story than medical. He was just studying it.

Could it be ‘Of Human Bondage’? It’s one of my favourite books.

Sorry didn’t see the bit about the sister. I don’t think it is.

Maybe Maggie O'Farrell...?

The sister went to work on an abortion clinic/family planning and got raped on a house visit.

Thanks all, none of these yet

Oh just remembered the protagonist is nicknamed Sandy through the book. Think it was from Alexander!

Got it!!! Finding Happiness by Emma Blair. I owe you all cake

I was literally gong to say was it a book by Emma Blair! Loveeeee her books so much!

Yes love that one. Read it a good few times but not for years