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.
Copyright © 2017 by Alexander McCall Smith
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Little, Brown, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, a Hachette UK company, London, in 2017.
Pantheon Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.
Excerpt from the poems of W. H. Auden appears courtesy of Edward Mendelson, Executor of the Estate of W. H. Auden, and Penguin Random House LLC.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Name: McCall Smith, Alexander, [date] author.
Title: A distant view of everything / by Alexander McCall Smith.
Description: New York : Pantheon Books, 2017. Series: An Isabel Dalhousie novel ; 11
Identifiers: LCCN 2017008647 (print). LCCN 2017012237 (ebook). ISBN 9780307908957 (ebook). ISBN 9780307908940 (hardcover).
Subjects: LCSH: Dalhousie, Isabel (Fictitious character)—Fiction. Women philosophers—Fiction. Edinburgh (Scotland)—Fiction. BISAC: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths. FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional British. FICTION / Contemporary Women. GSAFD: Mystery fiction.
Classification: LCC PR6063.C326 (ebook). LCC PR6063.C326 D57 2017 (print). DDC 823/.914—dc23
LC record available at lccn.loc.gov/2017008647
Ebook ISBN 9780307908957
Cover illustration by Bill Sanderson
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