The forgotten affairs of youth
by Alexander McCall Smith
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Happy with her husband-to-be and beloved son, Isabel Dalhousie has feelings about parenthood that grow more tender daily. So when Jane, a visiting academic adopted and sent to Australia as a baby, asks for help in tracing her Scottish origins, she cannot refuse. However, habitually upright Isabel finds herself beset by temptation - for instance, to be suspicious of Professor Lettuce's latest subterfuge, and of her niece Cat's weakness for the wrong man. And when the search for Jane's parents turns troubling, she can hardly prevent herself from interfering too forcefully in family secrets. As she steers a course between love and laissez-faire, our philosopher heroine succeeds in resisting all temptations but those which must be answered, and teases a solution from every problem.
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Forgotten Affairs of Youth
2012, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Isabel Dalhousie Mysteries Paperback
2011, Random House Large Print Publishing
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Forgotten Affairs of Youth
2011, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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The forgotten affairs of youth
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Originally published: London: Little, Brown, 2011.
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Happy with her husband-to-be and beloved son, Isabel Dalhousie, editor of the Review of applied ethics and resident of that most humane city Edinburgh, has feelings about parenthood that grow more tender daily. So when Jane, a visiting academic adopted and sent to Australia as a baby, asks for help in tracing her Scottish origins, Isabel cannot refuse.
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