Friends, Lovers, ChocolateIsabel Dalhousie thinks often of friends, sometimes of lovers, and on occasion of chocolate. As an Edinburgh philosopher she is certain of where she stands. She can review a book called In Praise of Sin with panache and conviction, but real life is well, perhaps a bit more challenging particularly when it comes to her feelings for Jamie, a younger man who should have married her niece, Cat. Jamie's handsomeness leaves Isabel feeling distinctly uneasy,

On the furthest ridge behind them

tending to any that call upon her for her healing potions and vast wisdom

Or something you are

Her life is quiet

a tough new crime-fighting team on the mean streets of south London

'Prepare to grow hungrier for justice with every page you turn' Nina de Gramont

politics behind the popularity of Barbara Pym or the ambitions that underlie her own fiction

from a domestic cook in Mumbai

Six months ago

the joy of being a mother and the heartbreak she has overcome - Hannah holds absolutely nothing back

twenty years old

and the unwelcome attention of his superiors and the local crime boss