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The Lost Art of Gratitude

The Lost Art of Gratitude

Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith

Location(s): Edinburgh

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Modern

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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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The Lost Art of Gratitude is the 6th novel in the “Sunday Philosophy Club” series by Alexander McCall Smith, a delightful series that transports the reader to the wonderfulness that is Edinburgh

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