The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon
Modern ideas get tangled up with traditional ones in the latest intriguing installment in the beloved, best-selling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series.
Precious Ramotswe has taken on two puzzling cases. First she is approached by the lawyer Mma Sheba, who is the executor of a deceased farmer’s estate. Mma Sheba has a feeling that the young man who has stepped forward may be falsely impersonating the farmer’s nephew in order to claim his inheritance. Mma Ramotswe agrees to visit the farm and find out what she can about the self-professed nephew. Then the proprietor of the Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon comes to Mma Ramotswe for advice. The opening of her new salon has been shadowed by misfortune. Not only has she received a bad omen in the mail, but rumors are swirling that the salon is using dangerous products that burn people’s skin. Could someone be trying to put the salon out of business?
Meanwhile, at the office, Mma Ramotswe has noticed something different about Grace Makutsi lately. Though Mma Makutsi has mentioned nothing, it has become clear that she is pregnant . . . But in Botswana—a land where family has always been held above all else—this may be cause for controversy as well as celebration.
With genuine warmth, sympathy, and wit, Alexander McCall Smith explores some tough questions about married life, parenthood, grief, and the importance of the traditions that shape and guide our lives.
This is the fourteenth installment in the series.
This ebook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.
Botswana -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Compact discs
Detective and mystery fiction
Detective and mystery stories
Family
Family -- Fiction
Fiction
Humor (Fiction)
Humorous fiction
Literature
Mystery
Mystery fiction
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Imaginary organization)
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Imaginary organization) -- Fiction
Pregnant women
Pregnant women -- Fiction
Ramotswe, Precious (Fictitious character)
Ramotswe, Precious (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Social life and customs
Talking books
Women
Women -- Fiction
Women private investigators
Women private investigators -- Botswana -- Fiction
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Grouping Title | minor adjustment beauty salon |
Grouping Author | alexander mccall smith |
Grouping Category | book |
Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2023-12-06 03:41:24AM |
Last Indexed | 2023-12-06 04:05:30AM |
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Modern ideas get tangled up with traditional ones in the latest intriguing installment in the beloved, best-selling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series.
Precious Ramotswe has taken on two puzzling cases. First she is approached by the lawyer Mma Sheba, who is the executor of a deceased farmer’s estate. Mma Sheba has a feeling that the young man who has stepped forward may be falsely impersonating the farmer’s nephew in order to claim his inheritance. Mma Ramotswe agrees to visit the farm and find out what she can about the self-professed nephew. Then the proprietor of the Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon comes to Mma Ramotswe for advice. The opening of her new salon has been shadowed by misfortune. Not only has she received a bad omen in the mail, but rumors are swirling that the salon is using dangerous products that burn people’s skin. Could someone be trying to put the salon out of business?
Meanwhile, at the office, Mma Ramotswe has noticed something different about Grace Makutsi lately. Though Mma Makutsi has mentioned nothing, it has become clear that she is pregnant . . . But in Botswana—a land where family has always been held above all else—this may be cause for controversy as well as celebration.
With genuine warmth, sympathy, and wit, Alexander McCall Smith explores some tough questions about married life, parenthood, grief, and the importance of the traditions that shape and guide our lives.
This is the fourteenth installment in the series.
This ebook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.
eAudiobook
eBook
eBook
9781470368340
9781470368357
9781470368906
Recorded Books
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Recorded Books, Inc.
Botswana -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Compact discs
Detective and mystery fiction
Detective and mystery stories
Family -- Fiction
Fiction
Humorous fiction
Mystery fiction
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Imaginary organization)
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Imaginary organization) -- Fiction
Pregnant women -- Fiction
Ramotswe, Precious (Fictitious character)
Ramotswe, Precious (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Talking books
Women -- Fiction
Women private investigators -- Botswana -- Fiction
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon / by Alexander McCall Smith
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon [electronic resource] / Alexander McCall Smith
Detective and mystery stories
Family
Fiction
Humor (Fiction)
Literature
Mystery
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Imaginary organization)
Pregnant women
Ramotswe, Precious (Fictitious character)
Social life and customs
Talking books
Women
Women private investigators
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