Thursday, June 25, 2009

The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday

Truth. The fifth installment in the Sunday Philosophy Club series by prolific author Alexander McCall Smith is titled, The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday. Protagonist and philosopher Isabel Dalhousie now owns the Review of Applied Ethics outright, and continues to edit articles for publication. She dotes on her fifteen-month-old son, Charlie, and worries a bit that her young boyfriend Jamie may find more interest in women closer to his own age. The action in the novel focuses on the search for truth amid both lies and muddling behavior. Isabel applies her skills to getting to the bottom of a matter of the falsification of medical test data. The strength in The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday comes from the completeness of the characters and the ways in which their behavior unveils insights into our human condition.

Rating: Three-star (Recommended)

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