The Sunday Philosophy Club is the first of the Sunday Philosophy Club series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith, set in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featuring the protagonist Isabel Dalhousie. It was first published in 2004.

Plot synopsis
Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher in her early forties and lives alone in a large aging house in the south of Edinburgh. Thanks to a large inheritance left to her by her late mother, she is able to work for a nominal fee as the editor of the Review of Applied Ethics. Her closest friends are her niece Cat, a young attractive woman who runs a delicatessen; her housekeeper Grace, an outspoken woman with an interest in spiritualism; Cat's ex-boyfriend Jamie, a bassoonist to whom Isabel has been secretly attracted ever since they met; and Brother Fox, an urban fox who lives in Isabel's garden.

During a trip to the theatre, Isabel sees a young man fall to his death from the gods. As the young man falls, she catches his eye, and sees an expression of shock of his face, which suggests to her that the police's verdict of suicide is wrong. She decides to find out what really happened.

This concept (Isabel being a philosopher and the editor of the "Review of Applied Ethics") is a great idea - this way the author may make Isabel reflect various aspects of life (that is: tell his own views and opinions?)
"There were a surprising amount of such people...the idea of moral sense seemed to be quite alien."
Helmet: 36 (tunnetun henkilön suosittelema; Nassem Taleb)
Pyöreiden vuosien haaste: 16 (kannessa violettia)

Syyskuun voittajan pakettiin.

Thank you! :)

I'll take this book to our local meet-up.