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The Careful Use of Compliments

By: Alexander McCall Smith
Narrated by: Davina Porter
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For philosophically-minded Isabel Dalhousie, editor of the Review of Applied Ethics, getting through life with a clear conscience requires careful thought. And whilst juggling the arrival of baby Charlie, a passionate relationship with his father Jamie, a truce with her furious niece Cat, and struggles for authority over her son with her formidable housekeeper Grace, Isabel finds herself drawn into the story of a painter's mysterious death off the island of Jura.

©2007 Alexander McCall Smith (P)2007 Recorded Books LLC
Contemporary Fiction Genre Fiction
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"Isabel Dalhousie's charm is undeniable" ( Sunday Times)
"McCall Smith has the gift of evoking an entire social atmosphere in very few and simple words" ( Sunday Telegraph)
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