From a far and lovely country
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If you are the founder and managing director of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, you may expect complete strangers to approach you with their problems when they see you having dinner with your husband in a peri-peri restaurant. And if you are Precious Ramotswe, you are a kind and helpful person who will be willing to take on a quest to find the relatives of a man who, many years ago, left the country for the uncertainties and dangers of a distant conflict. While that is going on, though, there may be other things that claim your attention, such as the shocking news that a club that calls itself the Cool Singles Evening Club is encouraging married men to pretend to be single and meet women under false pretences. Who can be behind such a distasteful venture? Mma Ramotswe shows great tact in dealing with this situation and avoids harm to the innocent. But, despite these rumbles, life in Botswana, that far and lovely country, continues relatively smoothly. That, after all, is what Mma Ramotswe and her friends want - and most certainly deserves.
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McCall Smith, A. (2023). From a far and lovely country. Large print edition. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-. 2023. From a Far and Lovely Country. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-, From a Far and Lovely Country. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2023.
MLA Citation (style guide)McCall Smith, Alexander. From a Far and Lovely Country. Large print edition. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2023.
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