The latest book in McCall Smith's series featuring Isabel Dalhousie, Edinburgh's favourite philosopher. Isabel helps Jane, a visiting academic who was adopted and sent to Australia as a baby, to trace her Scottish origins. But she soon finds herself beset by temptation. Sales of the }Sunday Philosophy Club{ series are approximately 1.5 million copies. McCall Smith is, of course, also the author of the extremely popular }No 1. Ladies Detective Agency{ series.