Welcome to Litsy!

Isabel has to decide which friend to disoblige in the case of a painting which is worth far more than the auction house knows.

How could one not feel sympathy for somebody whose husband had done what Roz‘s had done? Oddly—slightly absurdly—she thought: to be abandoned by a urologist, of all people. Surely if anybody should know about human weakness and vulnerability—not to say human need—it should be a urologist.

Cute little addition to the Isabel Dalhousie series. Obviously not as in depth as the novels, but a good moral question and how Isabel would handle it.

My little guilty pleasure

I adore the character of Isabel. One of the best things about the Isabel Dalhousie series is the way she thinks through everything. This is a great glimpse into her soft, thoughtful world.

"Doing the right thing was not always the best way of securing the approval of others - far from it, it would seem. But the gratitude of others was not the point. You did what needed to be done because it needed to be done, and for no other reason."