FROM A FAR AND LOVELY COUNTRY

If you are the founder and Managing Director of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency you may expect complete strangers to approach you with their problems when they see you having dinner with your husband in a peri-peri restaurant. And if you are Precious Ramotswe, you are a kind and helpful person who will take on a quest to find the relatives of a man who many years ago left the country for the uncertainties and dangers of a distant conflict. Meanwhile there may be other things that claim your attention, such as the shocking news that a club that calls itself the Cool Singles Evening Club is encouraging married men to pretend to be single and meet women under false pretences. Who can be behind such a distasteful venture? Mma Ramotswe and her assistant Grace Makutsi will need all their tact, affability and good sense to disentangle such delicate disputes. Begins with a very helpful story so far paragraph so you can enjoy this bestselling series right from here. 243pp, paperback.