A line in the book: Entertaining subversive thoughts, for example, in a society in the grip of a political hegemony is not something that people will readily admit to, such is the power of intellectual intimidation; and yet people do have such thoughts. - Chapter 6.
Paperback blurb: Even on a perfect summer evenings in Edinburgh, there are many shocks to her ethical equilibrium that keep Isabel Dalhousie awake at night.
The underhand Christopher Dove is still determined to oust Isabel from the Review of Applied Ethics, while her old foe, the deeply dislikeable and possible downright wicked Minty Auchterlonie, makes an appeal for help that cannot be ignored.
And there is the seismic change in her life wrought by her overwhelming love for her young son, Charlie, and her fiance, Jamie.
Whether biting her lip on a hasty assumption or taming her unruly emotions, Alexander McCall Smith's sharp-eyed heroine is reminded of the value of kindness, and of the lost art of gratitude.
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Rating: 3/5
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