The Lost Art of Gratitude: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel

The Lost Art of Gratitude: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel

by Alexander Mc Call Smith (Author)

Synopsis

Isabel Dalhousie, philosopher and amateur solver of other people's problems, meets an old foe, Minty Auchterlonie, at a birthday party attended by their young children. Ambitious Minty, now the head of a small investment bank, is in trouble with her shareholders. Isabel becomes involved, and is drawn into a murky world of financial concealment. Minty is not the only high-flier in Isabel's life; her niece Cat has just become engaged to a tightrope-walking stuntman. Isabel fears his next job - and the engagement - could end in disaster. Meanwhile, her own boyfriend Jamie has marriage in mind too ...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: Export ed
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 03 Sep 2009

ISBN 10: 1408700646
ISBN 13: 9781408700648
Book Overview: * The new Isabel Dalhousie novel

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Praise for the Isabel Dalhousie Series:
[A] memorable cast of characters.... McCall Smith's assessments of fellow humans are piercing and profound... . [His] depictions of Edinburgh are vivid and seamless.... His fans ... are sure to embrace these moral peregrinations among the plaid.
-- San Francisco Chronicle

Scotland is a village ... just as exotic and compelling, in its way, as Botswana. When authors as clever as McCall Smith pursue such parallel tracks, readers are doubly well-served.
-- The Wall Street Journal
Author Bio
Following a distinguished career as a Professor of Medical Law, Alexander McCall Smith has turned to writing full-time. He is the author of over sixty books on a wide array of subjects, and his books have been translated into thirty-seven languages. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife.