![]() ![]() ![]() It’s an inspired choice, because in addition to her gift for moral clarity and fierce integrity, Isabel turns out to have surprisingly intimate connections to two of the candidates. What to do? Naturally, Mackinlay’s wife Jillian takes it upon herself to enlist the help of Isabel, a casual acquaintance she met at a dinner party. It’s all business as usual until someone complicates the process by writing an anonymous letter warning that one of the three finalists harbors a secret that would seriously embarrass the school if he were appointed. ![]() ![]() Harold Slade, principal of the Bishop Forbes School, is leaving for a post in Singapore, and the school’s board of governors, headed by retired businessman Alex Mackinlay, has prepared a short list of three possible replacements: mountain-climbing enthusiast John Fraser, ambitious math teacher Gordon Leafers and Tom Simpson, who Mackinlay thinks none too bright. Edinburgh moral philosopher Isabel Dalhousie’s seventh round of adventures among ethical conundrums ( The Lost Art of Gratitude, 2009, etc.) marks her finest hour to date. ![]()
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