Surprising us yet again, Alexander McCall Smith imagines the lives and loves behind some of the everyday people featured in pictures from the London Sunday Times photographic archive. In these 14 delightful tales, a young woman finds unexpected love while perusing Egyptian antiquities, a family is forever fractured when war comes to colonial Malaysia, Iron Jelloid tablets help to reveal a young man's inner strength, and twin sisters discover that romance can blossom anywhere—even at the altar.