His career has been a varied one: for many years he was a professor of Medical Law and worked in universities in the United Kingdom and abroad. The Ladies Detective Agency aspires to solve troubles and conflicts in their clients' personal lives or small business problems. After a hard life with plenty of bad luck, Mma Potokwani’s newest employee, Patience finally has a chance at happiness in Gabarone with a Water Affairs man from Malawi, but her teenaged son’s jealousy and poor behaviour poses a threat to that. They set about their work, Mma Makutsi having already started filing the pile of papers on her desk and Mma Ramotswe having invoices to compile. I don’t think that will be necessary,” she said, then after the shortest of pauses added, “Thank you, anyway.

In this episode she and her colleague Grace Makutsi are concerned because Grace’s husband Phuti is experiencing a sudden downturn in his furniture business. Much thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an early audio copy in exchange for my honest review!And for the rest of our lives that understanding grew, until, with any luck, we could pick up all the signs if we needed.

It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance. This is another cheering tale where human nature wanders off on the wrong tack to cause problems that are resolved, leaving the reader feeling comforted and reassured that the world is just and pleasant. If only all our problems could be sorted out with Precious Ramotswe’s blend of generosity and innocent cunning. Of course there were factors at work in the background, foremost of which was the word of mouth on which every business ultimately would succeed or fail. Phuti has always been concerned with quality and comfort, but this new firm seems interested only in profits.Precious must come up with a clever plan to save Phuti's business and ease Grace's worries about going broke. In March of 2011 he received an award from the President of Botswana for his services through literature to that country. We all know the range and breadth of Alexander’s writing, not all of it comic but much of it SO comic it keeps us afloat through dark times. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. They are steeped in kindness, common sense, and a gentle philosophy about leading one's best life, and of course added wisdom on how to be a successful detective from a well-read manual.

As with the other 22 books in this series, this is an enjoyable read that combines humor, social commentary, mystery and well-developed characters. Mma Ramotswe has a couple of tricky problems to deal with; Mma Makutsi is concerned about a rival chair company who are undercutting her husband's business, and using arch rival Violet Sepotho in their advertising campaign; meanwhile, one of her old friends is having trouble with her son and the new man in her life. One day the white van would finally expire, but that day had not yet come, and until then it did what was asked of it patiently and with dignity.It caught her eye from the side—a small name-plate, of engraved brass, mounted upon a wooden base, reading Mma Grace Makutsi .

This then morphs into a discussion of small and big men; of a man with very short muscular legs like tree trunks; of termites felling trees; etc. As they would sink into one of Phuti's large, overstuffed, extremely comfortable armchairs, so will readers delightedly immerse themselves in descriptions of the Botswana landscape; in Precious and Grace's conversations over mugs of red bush tea; and in the doings of the rest of the cast of comic characters. Tea had remarkable calming properties when administered mid-crisis, and that, perhaps, was what was needed now.I even tried witching from ebook to audio (the Lisette Lecat's voice was sooo soothing, I kinda want her to read me bedtime stories). The experience is like sitting on a rocking chair on a front porch on a warm day, overlooking a lake filled with small sailboats. Acts of unkindness by others do not make us unkind – they simply make us all the more determined to be kind ourselves. It will require not only all of their patience and dedication, but also the help of Mma Ramotswe and the formidable Mma Potokwani. The real art in going through life with dignity and with a modicum of happiness was to accept what you were, and, at the same time, to accept others and to love them all equally.