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The lost art of gratitude [electronic resource] / Alexander McCall Smith.
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Isabel meets Minty Auchterlonie, the high-flying financier, at a birthday party she has taken her son, Charlie, to. Minty's integrity has always been in question and when the woman confides in Isabel about troubles at the bank, Isabel wonders if she can be trusted or the perpetrator of an enormous financial fraud. Plus Isabel crosses swords with her nemesis Professor Dove; her niece is dating a stunt man, and now Jamie, doting father of Charlie, is pressing her to marry him.
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- ISBN: 9780307373052 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0307373053 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (262 p.)
- Edition: 1st Canadian ed.
- Publisher: Toronto : Knopf Canada, c2009.
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| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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- Random House, Inc.
The sixth book in this bestselling series gives us Isabel, intrigue â both moral and financial â a fox bite, two engagements and at least one wedding!
While attending a second birthday party with her son, Charlie, Isabel meets Minty Auchterlonie, a ruthlessly ambitious high-flying financier who first appeared in The Sunday Philosophy Club. Minty heads a small investment bank and may or may not be deceiving her shareholders. Isabel faces a dilemma: she has information which could prevent the investors from being cheated â but how can she be sure of it?
Meanwhile, Isabelâs niece, Cat, becomes engaged to a stunt man who is also a funambulist. However, the fiancé is about to take up a highly dangerous engagement that Isabel fears will end in disaster, even as Isabel herself considers embarking on an extreme adventure of her ownâ¦
