Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Monthly Newsletter

Join Now

In the Company of Cheerful Ladies #6

In the Company of Cheerful Ladies #6

Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith

Location(s): Botswana

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Modern

Location

Content

Precious Ramotswe, that cheerful Botswanan private investigator of ‘traditional build’, is now married to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. The Agency is busy, but Mma Ramotswe cannot ignore the plea which is made by a woman who comes to her with a tale of particular misfortune. Unfortunately, her attempts to help are interrupted by a close encounter between her tiny white van and a bicycle, and by a spectacular disagreement between her assistant, Mma Makutsi, and one of the apprentices at the garage. This apprentice has found a fancy girlfriend who drives a Mercedes-Benz. How can he be rescued from his folly? And as for Mma Makutsi, she has found a dancing class, and a man who may not be able to dance very well, but who admires her greatly. And all of this happens against a background of quiet sessions of bush tea, and of a land that stretches out forever under mile upon mile of empty sky…

Review this Book

To review this book, please

Log in

Book Reviews

Lead Review

Forget the library – the body is in the mud hut. An African Miss Marple created by a Scottish lawyer . . . superb (Sunday Times )

Read review