Botswana July 20, 2006
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Alexander McCall Smith’s series ‘The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency’ is a joyful thing. Delicate, clear prose, written around themes which are meaningful but as pragmatic, gentle and proper as the main character who carries them.Mma Precious Ramotswe is a mature lady (of, as we are often reminded, traditional build) who, upon the death of her beloved father, decides to set up a Ladies Detective Agency, the only one in Botswana. With the morality taught to her by her father, and her own clear-sightedness and pragmatism she solves the problems of her clients and those around her.
She is above all grounded, in her sense of what is right and in the land in which she lives. Although profoundly moral, she does not moralise and has sympathetic understanding of the failings of ordinary people. She is an ideally good character.
These are books to read if you ever feel tired, jaded or cynical. Let them lift you back up into a better place.
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