The Lost Art of Gratitude. [An Isabel Dalhousie Novel.]

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,no price- clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,multi-colour design by Adam McCauley, illustrated dw/dj panels with b/w,brown+khaki lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges with faint,minimal,sporadic dust-soiling flecks,but still generally bright,fore-edges generally bright and overall clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,publisher's original plain khaki cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked brown ink letters to spine/backstrip, and immaculate plain navy blue endpapers.Front+rear board's lower corners minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,1-249pp [paginated] includes 17 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, and a dedication.
Want more Alexander McCall SMITH titles? For similar and other titles, please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2 and SIGNED catalogues. Even on perfect summer evenings in Edinburgh,birthplace of tolerance and enlightenment,there are many shocks to her carefully maintained ethical equilibrium that keep Isabel Dalhousie - mother, philosopher and new fiancee - awake at night.
There is yet another underhand attempt to oust Isabel as editor of her Review of Applied Ethics by the treacherous Christopher Dove and his accomplice,Professor Lettuce; there is an appeal for help from the unprincipled,deeply dislikable and possibly downright wicked Minty Auchterlonie that cannot be ignored; there is her niece Cat's latest unsuitable boyfriend,to whom the benefit of the doubt must be given. And there is the seismic change in her life wrought by her sometimes overwhelming love for her small son Charlie and her fiance,Jamie.
Facing these challenges with her particular blend of compassion and unsparing honesty,Isabel finds herself considering a useful set of lessons for life.Whether biting her lip on a hasty assumption or taming her unruly emotions,Alexander McCall Smith's keen-eyed heroine is reminded of the value of kindness freely given,and of the lost art of gratitude - for life's many and unsought blessings.
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