'McGrotty and Ludmilla' is the Aladdin story set in modern Whitehall, and describes the making of the deadliest British prime Minister since Margaret Thatcher. The author claims it is wholly uninfluenced by the TV comedy series 'Yes, Minister'. Like his third novel it shows the London career of a young upwardly mobile Scot, but it differs from that and Alasdair Gray's other books by having a hero who gets everything he wants, marries and lives happily ever after.

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