1. It is the newest installment of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.
2. It is written by the brilliant Alexander McCall Smith.
3. You will wish that Precious Ramotswe is a real person so you can be her best friend.
4. For that you would have to move to Botswana, but that's ok because the author so obviously loves Botswana and Africa, making the reader love it also.
5. Grace Makutsi is the perfect counterpart to Precious.
6. Grace is very obviously pregnant, but she doesn't want to jinx it by telling anyone.
7. Grace's nasty auntie-in-law is back. She's as nasty as ever, but gets what's coming to her.
8. There are snakes involved, but they also get what's coming to them.
9. Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni is the BEST HUSBAND EVER.
10. Mr. J. L. B.'s perpetual apprentice mechanic, Charlie, has redeeming qualities after all.
11. The bad guy/girl in this story doesn't seem to have many redeeming qualities. I think she needs a minor adjustment. (See what I did there?)
12. Also, sometimes the right thing to do requires stretching the truth.
13. Again, it is by Alexander McCall Smith. Duh.
14. This quote about children: "We wanted to protect them, she thought, of course we did, but we knew that we could not and they would have to deal with the disappointments and shocks of life as best they could. All we could do was to give them that one thing that they could use to protect themselves from all that. At least we could do that. That thing was love, of course."
TBC
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