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The Right Attitude to Rain

By: Alexander McCall Smith
Narrated by: Davina Porter
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Mysteries of love, romance, and truth telling lie at the heart of Isabel Dalhousie's concerns in Alexander McCall Smith's new Sunday Philosopher's Club novel.

Isabel's niece, Cat, is still worshipped by the young musician, Jamie, but Cat has a new and unsuitable love interest. Meanwhile Isabel's Texan cousins have arrived in Edinburgh and are provoking a quite separate set of dilemmas.

In between these events and complications, Edinburgh life continues, calmly sailed through by Isabel, her housekeeper, Grace, and, of course that cautious resident of Isabel's garden, brother Fox. His alone is the uncomplicated existence....

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I enjoyed the story a lot, and the narrator is a great reader/ storyteller. Unfortunately, I really don't like the way she voices the characters. Very exaggerated, old-fashioned-sounding Australian accent for a young woman, patchy American accents, and a much older sounding main character than i would imagine if reading the printed edition (woman in 60s rather than 40s). The number of accents must be tricky to manage, and my dislike is probably just personal taste, but i think i will read the next one, rather than listen to it, if the narrator is the same.

Accents/voices distract from a great story

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