Blue Shoes and Happiness [SEP] series
Blue Shoes and Happiness
Blue Shoes and Happiness is the seventh in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith, set in Gaborone, Botswana, and featuring the Motswana protagonist Precious Ramotswe.
Plot introduction.
Mma Ramotswe, happy in her marriage and her work, contemplates happiness and what people need – or think they need – in order to achieve it. With the help of her staff at the detective agency, she tackles several mysteries involving people who have been behaving badly or
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Related book.
A cookbook associated with the novels was published in 2009; "Mma Ramotswe's Cookbook" by Stuart Brown, with a foreword by Alexander McCall Smith.
External links.
- Alexander McCall Smith's official website page featuring this series of novels
- Web site for the series
- BBC Official Press Release
- The Guardian's humorous "digested" version of "Blue Shoes and Happiness"