Reviews for The forgotten affairs of youth [electronic resource]

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Review of Applied Ethics, accepts on his own initiative an essay written by his nephew Max? And where did Charlie, the 2-year-old son of Isabel and her fianc, bassoonist Jamie, pick up the nasty word he was heard using in his playgroup? All these questions, however, take a back seat to Australian philosopher Jane Cooper's request that Isabel help her find the man who impregnated her mother, Clara Scott, while she was still at university. Clara, long dead in a car crash, can be no help, and Isabel's far from certain that the man who took such pains to avoid leaving a paper trail so long ago will want to be part of Jane's life now. Isabel agrees to investigate anyway because it's the right thing to do, and then has to deal with the quest's unexpected complications using exactly the same moral lodestar. The woolliest of Isabel's eight adventures (The Charming Quirks of Others, 2010, etc.) at times seems little more than a catalogue of its heroine's always principled errors and misjudgments. But it shows again, and handsomely, the most lovable feature of Edinburgh: "Everything isconnected somehow."]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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