The Saturday big tent wedding party
By: Alexander McCall Smith
Series: No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series -- 12; No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency -- 12.
Publisher: Little, Brown; Abacus Software; Little Brown and Company
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781408702581; 9781408702598; 9780349123134
Subjects: Fiction; Women private investigators; Weddings; No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Imaginary organization); Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Description: The day of Mma Makutsi s long-awaited wedding to her beloved Phuti Radiphuti, proprietor of the Double Comfort Furniture Shop, is finally approaching. But that scheming minx Violet Sephotho has developed political ambitions which could jeopardise not only the wedding preparations but the fate of the entire nation of Botswana, and Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi must take action to quash them. Meanwhile Charlie, the incorrigible apprentice at Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, has become involved with a young woman, and is now being called upon to face up to the responsibilities of fatherhood. Can kind, wise Precious help him to do the right thing.
Table of contents: title: [Precious Ramotswe is haunted by a dream in which she is driving her dear old white van. Grace Makutsi dreams that her 97 percent on the Botswana Secretarial College exam was a mistake. When Mma Ramotswe discovers that her van is actually still in use (and, of course, sets out to retrieve it), Mma Makutsi wonders whether her dream will turn out to be prophetic as well. They can only wait and see, but, in the meantime, one of Phuti Radiphuti's apprentices has gotten a girl pregnant and, under pressure to marry her, has run away. Naturally, it is up to Precious and Grace to help the couple work things out. In other developments, Mma Ramotswe investigates a case of rural jealousy in which cattle are being poisoned. Add to the mix Violet Sephotho's newly begun, already unstoppable run for the Botswana Parliament and the possibility that wedding bells may finally ring for Phuti Radiphuti and Grace Makutsi; title: whose love for each other is as great as their love for Botswana; title: and we have a charming and delightful tale in the inimitable style of Alexander McCall Smith].