Isabel likes Tom instantly, but still dislikes Angie, especially when Angie flirts with Jamie and invites him to form part of the weekend party. When Mimi suggests that Isabel invite Tom and Angie to dinner before the weekend away, Isabel also invites Jamie. The next day, Mimi reveals that Isabel's mother had an affair with a younger man, and Isabel is shocked. As she is examining one of his bassoon reeds, he kisses her, but pulls away after a few moments and says that it was a stupid mistake. When Mimi says that Tom suffers from Bell's palsy, Isabel realises that he is the man she saw in the art gallery, and Mimi confirms Isabel's negative impressions of Angie: most of Tom's friends think that Angie is marrying him for his money. Mimi tells Isabel that some friends from Texas – Tom Bruce and his fiancée Angie – own a house in Peebles, and that Mimi, Joe and Isabel have been invited to spend the weekend with them. Isabel's cousins Mimi and Joe visit from Dallas. Isabel calls back to correct the mistake, but when Florence hears that Isabel is buying the flat for Grace, she offers it to her anyway. Later, Isabel's agent calls to tell her that she has been offered the flat because the owner, Florence, has assumed that Isabel and Jamie will live in it together as a couple. Isabel visits a flat that she is considering buying for Grace, who currently rents Jamie accompanies her. Isabel resolves not to judge him without meeting him. Then she goes to Cat's delicatessen, where Cat's assistant Eddie tells her that Cat has a new boyfriend, Patrick, a workaholic lawyer. When visiting an art gallery, Isabel meets an American couple: Isabel sees that the man has Bell's palsy, and takes an instant dislike to the woman for no reason that she can explain. Her closest friends are her niece Cat, a young 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. Due to an inheritance left to her by her late mother, she can work for a nominal fee as the editor of the Review of Applied Ethics. Isabel Dalhousie is in her early forties and lives alone in a large ageing house in the south of Edinburgh.
It was first published in 2006, and is the sequel to Friends, Lovers, Chocolate. The Right Attitude to Rain is the third of the Sunday Philosophy Club series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith, set in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featuring the protagonist Isabel Dalhousie.
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