Running parallel with this are the decisions she has to make in her own life. She is editor of the Review of Applied Ethics, and many of the incidents in this book series arise from her applying her ethical judgements to peoples’ problems.
This is because she practises what she preaches as a philosopher. Isabel is an extremely likeable character, just the sort of person most of us would value as a friend. However, Alexander McCall Smith has done just that in his series of novels about the Edinburgh philosopher Isabel Dalhousie – the eighth volume of which, The Forgotten Affairs of Youth, is just published. It is not often that a novelist casts a philosopher as the chief protagonist. SUBSCRIBE NOW Books The Isabel Dalhousie novels of Alexander McCall Smith Patricia Cleveland-Peck detects philosophy in the books of Alexander McCall Smith.
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