261 pages
English language
Published 2011 by Pantheon Books.
261 pages
English language
Published 2011 by Pantheon Books.
Happy with her husband-to-be and beloved son, Isabel Dalhousie, editor of the Review of applied ethics and resident of that most humane city Edinburgh, has feelings about parenthood that grow more tender daily. So when Jane, a visiting academic adopted and sent to Australia as a baby, asks for help in tracing her Scottish origins, Isabel cannot refuse.