The Careful Use of Compliments is the fourth book in The Sunday Philosophy Club Series

The Sunday Philosophy Club Series

The Sunday Philosophy Club is a series of novels by the author Alexander McCall Smith. It is also the name of the first novel in the series, and an informal talking group founded by the main character Isabel Dalhousie...

by Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith, CBE, FRSE, is a Rhodesian-born Scottish writer and Emeritus Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. In the late 20th century, McCall Smith became a respected expert on medical law and bioethics and served on British and international committees...

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Plot

After her son's birth, Isabel feels that her life has hit a happy (or happier) patch.

To her distress, she learns that the editorial committee for the Applied Ethics journal she edits has decided to replace her.

Meanwhile, she becomes interested in the life and recent death of Andrew McInnes, an artist whose paintings feature mostly the island of Jura

Jura, Scotland

Jura is an island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, situated adjacent and to the north-east of Islay. Part of the island is designated as a National Scenic Area. Until the twentieth century Jura was dominated - and most of it was eventually owned - by the Campbell clan of Inveraray Castle on Loch...

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