The Full Cupboard Of Life: The multi-million copy bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series
By (Author) Alexander McCall Smith
Little, Brown Book Group
Abacus
5th July 2004
1st July 2004
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Long-listed for Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2005 (UK)
224
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 19mm
179g
Mma Ramotswe, who became engaged to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni at the end of the first book, is still engaged. She wonders when a day for the wedding will be named, but she is anxious to avoid putting too much pressure on her fiance. For indeed he has other things on his mind - notably a frightening request made of him by Mma Potokwani, pushy matron of the Orphan Farm. Mma Ramotswe herself has weighty matters on her mind. She has been approached by a wealthy lady - whose fortune comes from successful hair-braiding salons - and has been asked to check up on several suitors. Are these men just interested in her money This may be difficult to find out, but Mma Ramotswe is, of course, a very intuitive lady ...Vist the author's website on www mccallsmith.com
'There is something almost divinely appealing about the way Alexander McCall Smith writes about daily life in Botswana...it is hard to think of a contemporary writer more genuinely engaging...(his) novels are also extremely funny: I find it impossible to think about them without smiling' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday
McCall Smith is is a Professor of Medical Law as well as an author who has written over 50 books on a wide range of subjects: from Forensic Aspects of Sleep to The Criminal Law of Botswana, The Perfect Hamburger(children's fiction) to Portuguese Irregular Verbs (short stories).