McCall Smith audiobooks are good for long car trips - they're like children's books with adult themes (& by this I do not mean sex & violence, more dreary than that). Everything is pleasant, everything understandable, nothing too hard to think about, nothing too loud will happen & if you snooze through part of it you can still keep up with the story. Corduroy Mansions is particularly self-indulgent & full of comforting asides - middle class, middle age, middle England. I suspect the author's editor has decided to leave him be as whatever he writes seems to find an audience so it does ramble on & could do with more plot & more ideas. Andrew Sachs' narration is excellent & easy listening.