Rating: 4/5
Review:
Another good Mma Ramotswe story
This is the 16th No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency
book, and by now we know exactly what we're going to get: a slow, slow narrative pace; gentle, humane
musings; celebrations of goodness and human warmth and some quiet detective
work on cases both amusing and serious.
This doesn't disappoint.
The plot, for all it matters, revolves around Mma Ramotswe
taking a holiday, leaving Mma Makutsi in charge of the agency. Needless to say, this doesn't sit well with
Mma Ramotswe and she soon takes responsibility for a young street-boy and
becomes involved in a case…and you know the rest, really. Our favourite characters all feature,
including a small role from the wonderful Mr. J. L. B Matekoni and, of course,
the dastardly Violet Sephotho. The
ending made me well up a bit, as it always does no matter how I resist.
In among Mma Ramotswe's general, digressive musings on life
and goodness is this, which seemed to me to have an especial resonance at the
moment:
"Truth had a way of coming out on top – and it was just
as well for everybody that it did. If
there ever came a day when truth was so soundly defeated that it never emerged,
but sank, instead, under the sheer volume of untruth that the world produced,
then that would be a sad day for Botswana
and for the people who lived in Botswana. It would be a sad day for the whole world,
that day."
In short, this is yet another very good Mma Ramotswe book;
if you've liked the others you'll like this.
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