From Love over Scotland:
She decided to indulge Bertie. "Very well, Bertie," she said. "You can come to the police station with me. I don't think that there's much to be seen there, quite frankly. Police stations are rather boring places, I understand."
Bertie looked puzzled. "Then why do people like to read about them, if they're so boring?"
Irene laughed. "I suppose that's because the people who write about themÂpeople like that Ian RankinÂhave no idea what a real police station is like!"
"So they just make it up?" asked Bertie. "Does Mr. Rankin just make everything up?"
"He has a very active imagination," said Irene. "He makes Edinburgh sound very exciting, with all those bodies and so on. But that's not at all what real life's llike. Real life is what we do, Bertie. Real life is you and me. Valvona and Crolla. That sort of thing."
Bertie thought for a moment. "Poor Mr. Rankin," he said after a while. "It's sad that he has to make things up. Do you think he's unhappy, Mummy? Do you think that having to tell so many fibs makes him unhappy?"
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