What is the importance in Edinburgh in the novel, All’s Well?

The capital of modern Scotland and former home of its monarchs, Edinburgh factors in as an important setting in ways both overt and subtle. For the younger Miranda, Edinburgh, home of the Fringe Festival, was the site of her stellar performance as Helen in All's Well That Ends Well, where she met Paul in the audience and the two fell in love on their way to a period of happy marriage. Throughout the novel, Miranda looks back on her time in Edinburgh as idyllic, and she tells the reader that her decision to pursue her craft and make the trip there came soon after her mother's death and thus represented a liberating rite of passage for her in making her own way in the world. Awad also makes a more indirect connection, in that it is unspecified in the novel but certainly known to the author, that Edinburgh is also home to a pub called The Canny Man's, known for its eccentric decor and is very popular with tourists.