Forgotten Affairs of Youth
Opis
Happy with her husband-to-be and beloved son, Isabel Dalhousie has feelings
about parenthood that grow more tender daily. So when Jane, a visiting
academic adopted and sent to Australia as a baby, asks for help in tracing
her Scottish origins, she cannot refuse. However, habitually upright Isabel
finds herself beset by temptation - for instance, to be suspicious of
Professor Lettuce's latest subterfuge, and of her niece Cat's weakness for
the wrong man. And when the search for Jane's parents turns troubling, she
can hardly prevent herself from interfering too forcefully in family
secrets. As she steers a course between love and laissez-faire, our
philosopher heroine succeeds in resisting all temptations but those which
must be answered, and teases a solution from every problem.