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"Blue Shoes and Happiness" brings more adventures for Precious Ramotswe and her fine assistant Mma Makutsi, including an encounter with a cobra, a sinister blackmail plot and a rather tight-fitting pair of blue shoes, as well as plenty more bush tea and Botswana skies.
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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-fashioned ways of doing things')
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 among the greatest comfort-reads of all time, written in plain, elegant prose.')
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 looking glass into an Africa we rarely hear about, but their main purpose is to hold a mirror to our own socie)
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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 among the greatest comfort-reads of all time, written in plain, elegant prose.')
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 looking glass into an Africa we rarely hear about, but their main purpose is to hold a mirror to our own socie)
* A highly original 'detective' novel with unique setting and characters.
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- PublisherPolygon
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1904598633
- ISBN 13 9781904598633
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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