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 The Right Attitude to Rain - Alexander McCall Smith
 The Right Attitude to Rain - Alexander McCall Smith ... to rain - just as in life the key to happiness lies in making the best of what you have. Bruised in love by her faithless Irish husband, Isabel Dalhousie is a connoisseur of intimate moral issues: she edits a philosophical journal and spends a great deal of her time considering how to improve the lives of those around her. There is her housekeeper Grace, whose future she must secure; her niece Cat, who is embarking on a new relationship with a dubious workaholic mummy's boy; and even an American couple newly arrived in Edinburgh on a tour. And then there is Jamie, Cat's ex-boyfriend, a handsome, gifted musician fourteen years Isabel's junior, with whom she is slowly and hopelessly falling in love. Intensely thoughtful and consistently entertaining, THE RIGHT ATTITUDE TO RAIN is shot through with compassion and unassuming intelligence.Newest Review: ... and family. She is a thoughtful woman who cares about other people and how they think of her - her niece's opinion is ... more ... particularly important, which often causes problems because her niece is particularly opinionated. I thought she was very well-drawn, perhaps surprisingly so as the author is a man. Some will probably find her interference in other people's lives to be a little annoying, but it is so sensitively done that I found it hard to take any issue with her. Most importantly, Isabel is someone that I felt I could understand and, as a character, she is completely convincing.
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The Right Attitude to Rain - Alexander McCall Smith: Wet and windy (1134 words)
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Isabel Dalhousie is a divorced woman in her forties, of independent means and with a job she likes as the editor of a philosophy journal. Life is good, but she can't help but feel that there is a hole in her life, and she tries to fill this by 'helping' other people. She wants to buy a house for her housekeeper, find her niece a suitable boyfriend and find a solution to the apparently dodgy relationship between two Americans she happens to meet. On top of all that, she is falling in love with Jamie, a man fourteen years younger than herself who also happens to be the ex-boyfriend of her niece. Can she help everyone along, including herself, or is she heading for a life ... Read the complete review
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Product Information The Right Attitude to Rain - Alexander McCall Smith > Reviews > The Right Attitude To Rain Fiction - Crime - ISBN: 0349118051 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The right attitude to Rain is the third novel in the Isabel Dalhouise Series. The main characters are Isabel, Her niece Cat, Grace her housekeepr. There is an American couple and Jamie who was Cat's ex boyfriend.Isabel has fallen in love with Jamie who is fourteen years her junior . Jamie and Isabel ... Read the complete review
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