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The Comfort of Saturdays by Alexander McCall Smith

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Nov 08, 2009

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Visions of happiness – that's how Alexander McCall Smith entices readers into his Sunday Philosophy Club novels. His heroine, Isabel Dalhousie, has it all: a lover, a child, stimulating work, a house in elegant Edinburgh and plenty of money. Not that they necessarily add up to happiness. In The Comfort of Saturdays, Isabel – always a soft touch when it comes to solving mysteries – helps a doctor hagridden into isolation after someone tinkered with his research figures. Glimpses of sorrowed lives and thoughts about ethics shadow McCall Smith's sunny vistas, heightening rather than disturbing their charm. His fifth novel about Isabel's life will satisfy aficionados and may well lure newcomers into his idyllic world.

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