The Lost Art Of Gratitude

Author: McCall Smith, Alexander

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 5 August 2010 by Little, Brown Book Group (Abacus) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Isabel Dalhousie Novels' series.

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 . . .