Blue Shoes And Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith - ISBN: 9780349117720
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Married detective faces blackmail, witchcraft, and searches for happiness.

Blue Shoes And Happiness

The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agence Volume 7

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  • Paperback

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    25 January 2007

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Summary

Now that she is finally and happily married to her long-term suitor Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, Mma Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency of Botswana might have expected life to grow more sedate. But the many problems that lead customers to Mma Ramotswe’s door seem, if anything, to have multiplied, and no sooner has she settled her traditionally built person into the married state than she finds herself looking into several troublesome matters at once.

There is, to begin with, a distu…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780349117720
ISBN-10:0349117721
Author:Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Abacus
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:25 January 2007
Weight:211g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 20mm
Series:No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
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Critics Review

The books possess a beguiling simplicity that is hard to convey without making them seem fey, when in fact they are direct, vivid and down-to-earth … what he achieves in his No.1 Ladies - Detective Agency novels is the depiction in the lives of his main characters of a benign system of morality - derived by Mma Ramotswe from the old-fas

DAILY TELEGRAPH - ‘Nothing spoils [McCall Smith’s] vision of Botswana as a place where decent people triumph over mischief-makers’

SUNDAY TIMES - ‘Nothing will dim the charm of McCall Smith’s series, with its portraits of goodness, its sorrow over greed and its profound love of Africa. They are

Amanda Craig, INDEPENDENT - ‘[BLUE SHOES AND HAPPINESS has] the quiet sophistication of the previous novels and its simplicity is deceptive.These novels take us through the looki

About The Author

Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander McCall Smith is a full-time author, following a distinguished career as a Professor of Medical Law. He is the author of over sixty books on a wide array of subjects, and his books have been translated into thirty-seven languages. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife.

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