The Lost Art of Gratitude

FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, SEPTEMBER 2010

Copyright © 2009 by Alexander McCall Smith

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Published in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in Great Britain by Little, Brown, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, London, and subsequently published in hardcover in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2009.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Excerpts from poems by W. H. Auden appear courtesy of Edward Mendelson, Executor of the Estate of W. H. Auden, and Random House, Inc.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Pantheon edition as follows:

McCall Smith, Alexander.

The lost art of gratitude / Alexander McCall Smith.

p. cm.

1. Dalhousie, Isabel (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Women editors—Fiction. 3. Women philosophers—Fiction. 4. Investment bankers—Fiction. 5. Edinburgh (Scotland)—Fiction. I. Title.

PR6063.C326L67 2009

823′.914—dc22

2009022618

eISBN: 978-0-307-37857-6

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