The careful use of compliments

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259 pages

English language

Published July 17, 2007 by Windsor.

ISBN:
978-1-4056-1948-6
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OCLC Number:
173239162

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4 stars (1 review)

Late motherhood is not Isabel Dalhousie's only challenge. As she negotiates a truce with her furious niece Cat, and struggles for authority over her son, Isabel finds herself drawn into the story of a painter's mysterious death off the island of Jura. Then her professional existence comes under attack.

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reviewed The careful use of compliments by Alexander McCall Smith (Sunday Philosophy Club (Isabel Dalhousie) (4))

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4 stars

3.5* rounded up
Audiobook, well read.
I love this gentle series. Very little of plot happens in this, so there is oodles of time for both social detail and examination of ethics. Sometimes, though, it just feels like a lecture from the author, deliver via Isabel!

Subjects

  • Fiction

Places

  • Edinburgh (Scotland)
  • Scotland
  • Edinburgh