| The key to contentment in the Scottish climate is the right attitude to rain – just as in life happiness lies in making the best of what you have.
Isabel Dalhousie is a connoisseur of intimate moral issues: as editor of a philosophy journal, she spends a great deal of time considering how to improve the lives of others. There is her housekeeper Grace, whose future she must secure; her niece Cat’s ill-advised new relationship; and there is Cat’s ex-boyfriend Jamie, a handsome young musician with whom Isabel is inexorably falling in love.
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