Alexander McCall Smith. (2017). A Distant View of Everything: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Alexander McCall Smith. 2017. A Distant View of Everything: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Alexander McCall Smith, A Distant View of Everything: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2017.

Alexander McCall Smith. A Distant View of Everything: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2017.

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In this installment of the beloved Isabel Dalhousie series, Isabel is called upon to navigate complex social situations both at home and in her community.
A new baby brings an abundance of joy to Isabel and her husband, Jamie—but almost-four-year-old Charlie refuses to acknowledge Magnus, and Isabel struggles to impress upon her older son the patience and understanding that have guided her throughout her own life.
These are the very qualities that bring Bea Shandon, an old acquaintance, to seek Isabel’s help. Something of a matchmaker, Bea has introduced a wealthy female friend to a cosmetic surgeon, but soon uncovers information leading her to doubt his motives. Isabel agrees to find out more, but as her enquiries take an unexpected turn, she starts to wonder whom exactly she should be investigating. As ever, Isabel’s intelligence, wit, and empathy come to her aid as she grapples with issues like friendship and its duties, the obligation of truthfulness, and the importance of perspective.

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     June 1, 2017
     Edinburgh philosopher Isabel Dalhousie's cases (The Novel Habits of Happiness, 2015, etc.) keep getting slighter and slighter. But her exceptionally well-titled 11th may be the slenderest of them all.Beatrice Shandon has a problem. At one of the dinner parties in which she constantly seeks to mingle friends who already know each other with new people from outside their circle, she introduced Constance Macdonald, an acquaintance who'd been pressing for an invitation, to plastic surgeon Tony MacUspaig. Connie took instantly to Tony, but Bea now has reservations. More than reservations: she suspects that Tony may be a psychopath with a history of romancing wealthy women in order to extract money from them. Bea's no good at all at working out problems like this; could Isabel, her old school friend, help? With an alacrity that puts Connie's monumentally hesitant statement of the case to shame, Isabel agrees. Soon she's chatting with Rob McLaren, the dinner guest who knew Tony from St. Andrews University; with Tony's ex-girlfriend Andrea Murray, who reportedly attempted suicide after their breakup; and with his more recent friend Tricia Ferguson, who gave him 50,000 pounds from the trust fund her husband left her. But these inquiries don't drive the story. Much more important are interludes in which Isabel reads letters to the editor of the Scotsman, offers money to a stranger whose bicycle has just been wrecked by a charging dog, and chats about this and that with Tricia Ferguson's lawyer, who seems to have come to his office specifically in hopes that this irresistibly engaging conversationalist will drop in. Significantly, neither Connie Macdonald nor Tony MacUspaig ever appears in person. "I have a tendency, I'm afraid, to think at a bit of a tangent," the heroine confesses. Like-minded readers will fasten onto her latest plot-seasoned ruminations as manna from heaven.

     COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     June 1, 2017
     Of the endlessly inventive McCall Smith's three longest-running seriesthe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, 44 Scotland Street, and the Isabel Dalhousie novelsthe Dalhousie series may be the one that's hardest to get into. It's hard not to love gutsy Precious Ramotswe, founder of the Botswana detective agency, and it's hard to resist the denizens of Edinburgh's Scotland Street as their lives collide. But Isabel is a different matter. She's an Edinburgh philosopher, left a fortune by her father and a gorgeous husband by fate. She's a bit standoffish and very wrapped up in her thoughts, which constantly intrude on the action. The latest has a promising plot opener, with a matchmaker friend of Isabel's begging her to investigate whether a plastic surgeon she's fixed up with a wealthy friend is actually a psychopath. But the plotline just about sinks from view for most of the book, as Isabel muses and converses. There's enough of McCall Smith's trenchant wit to see the reader through, but this will appeal only to committed Dalhousie fans.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)

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     March 1, 2017
     

     Even as Isabel Dalhousie tries to convince little Charlie that his new baby brother is a reason for joy, she's approached by matchmaker Rosemary Hipple, who's regretting a match she proposed between a cosmetic surgeon and a banker after hearing rumors about the former.

     Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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A new baby brings an abundance of joy to Isabel and her husband, Jamie—but almost-four-year-old Charlie refuses to acknowledge Magnus, and Isabel struggles to impress upon her older son the patience and understanding that have guided her throughout her own life.
These are the very qualities that bring Bea Shandon, an old acquaintance, to seek Isabel’s help. Something of a matchmaker, Bea has introduced a wealthy female friend to a cosmetic surgeon, but soon uncovers information leading her to doubt his motives. Isabel agrees to find out more, but as her enquiries take an unexpected turn, she starts to wonder whom exactly she should be investigating. As ever, Isabel’s intelligence, wit, and empathy come to her aid as she grapples with issues like friendship and its duties, the obligation of truthfulness,...

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