A Song of Comfortable Chairs (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency)

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Throughout it all, the ladies (and their men) muse on many topics: unheeded parental wisdom, the benefits of occasional consumption of unhealthy food, the proliferation of extra features on any saleable item, the demise of dining tables and plates, and the curse of phased redundancy and planned obsolescence. Parking the van in its accustomed place under an acacia tree, Mma Ramotswe walked past the entrance to the garage.

Mma Ramotswe has a couple of tricky problems to deal with; Mma Makutsi is concerned about a rival chair company who are undercutting her husband's business, and using arch rival Violet Sepotho in their advertising campaign; meanwhile, one of her old friends is having trouble with her son and the new man in her life.Reading these books is like revisiting old friends, listening to their wisdom and small arguments while sharing cups of bush tea. Precious says little about Grace's behaviour and realizes this is due to her feeling insecure for some reason. Precious must come up with a clever plan to save Phuti's business and ease Grace's worries about going broke. The traffic was light, as the morning rush was over, and she did not push her van beyond a stately fifteen miles an hour, a speed at which it seemed to be most comfortable and at which the fewest rattles and other worrying noises emerged from the engine compartment. For instance, when Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi are discussing nurses with a carpenter, the man expresses shock at the idea of male nurses.

It's up to Mma Ramotswe to find out what is happening and devise a solution, as, of course, she will. When you are with somebody you love the smallest, smallest things can be so important, so amusing because love transforms the world, everything. After his first- ever visit to the dentist, Charlie is dismayed to learn what will be needed to keep his teeth from falling out.Grace’s friend Patience has a teenage son who is disrespectful to her boyfriend, and a new furniture dealer is trying to undercut Phuti and put him out of business. One day the white van would finally expire, but that day had not yet come, and until then it did what was asked of it patiently and with dignity. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin.

These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.His obvious knowledge of African customs in that part of Africa is endearing to someone who lived in that part of the world for very many years. All of the regular Botswana crew is back in this story focused on the growing office tension between Precious and Grace.

As with the other 22 books in this series, this is an enjoyable read that combines humor, social commentary, mystery and well-developed characters. As usual, common sense driven Mma Ramotswe gets to the bottom of it, while also assisting a friend of Grace’s to solve a problem in her personal life. The agency was going through a quiet spell—several major inquiries had recently been satisfactorily concluded—and she had no appointments that day.There would be time for several tea breaks, of course, and in this way they could expect to spend a pleasant and not unduly stressful day in the office. For example, Mma Ramotswe takes her employee, part-time detective Charlie, to the dentist; Mma Makutsi goes to the supermarket with her husband Phuti; Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi visit their friend Mma Potokwane at the orphan farm; and more. They set about their work, Mma Makutsi having already started filing the pile of papers on her desk and Mma Ramotswe having invoices to compile. He has received numerous awards for his writing, including the British Book Awards Author of the Year Award in 2004 and a CBE for service to literature in 2007. Tea had remarkable calming properties when administered mid-crisis, and that, perhaps, was what was needed now.