Alexander McCALL SMITH Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

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Isabel Dalhousie thinks often of friends, sometimes of lovers, & on occasion of chocolate. As an Edinburgh philosopher she is certain of where she stands. She can review a book called In Praise of Sin with panache & conviction, but real life is...well, perhaps a bit more challenging - particularly when it comes to her feelings for Jamie, a younger man who should have married her niece, Cat. Jamie's handsomeness leaves Isabel feeling distinctly uneasy, & ethically disturbed. 'I am a philosopher, she thinks, 'but I am also a woman'. 297pp P/B