Buy this book on-line SMITH**, ALEXANDER McCALL: : THE CAREFUL USE OF COMPLIMENTS - An Isabel Dalhousie Novel.**LONDON.LITTLE,BROWN,2007. ISBN 9780316727822.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip (£16.99) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,colour pictorial artwork/design by Adam McCauley,illustrated dw/dj,with b/w,brown,blue,red+yellow lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Inevitable,but light and superficial scoring and indents to panels of dw/dj - one in particular on upper panel - mildly affecting the board beneath.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually as new - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread? Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original,plain blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked black ink letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain pale green endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,1-246pp [paginated] includes 19 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,and a dedication.
For philosophically minded Isabel Dalhousie,editor of the Review of Applied Ethics,getting through life with a clear conscience requires careful thought.And with the arrival of baby Charlie,not to mention a passionate relationship with his father Jamie,fourteen years her junior,
Isabel enters deeper and rougher waters.
Late motherhood is not the only challenge facing Isabel.Even as she negotiates 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.
Perhaps most seriously of all,Isabel's professional existence and that of her beloved Review come under attack from the machiavellian and suspiciously handsome Professor Dove.A master storyteller whether debating ethics in Edinburgh or pursuing lady detectives in Africa,here Alexander McCall Smith is as witty and wise as his irresistibly spirited heroine.
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