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Tears of the Giraffe

On sale

1st February 2007

Price: £14.99

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Selected: Audiobook Downloadable / ISBN-13: 9781405502917

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THE NO.1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe – the engaging and sassy owner of Botswana’s only detective agency. TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE, McCall Smith’s second audiobook, takes us further into this world as we follow Mama Ramotswe into more daring situations …
Among her cases this time are wayward wives, unscrupulous maids, and the challenge to resolve a mother’s pain for her son who is long lost on the African plains. Indeed, Mma Ramotswe’s own impending marriage to the most gentlemanly of men, Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, the promotion of Mma’s secretary to the dizzy heights of Assistant Detective, and the arrival of new members to the Matekoni family, all brew up the most humorous and charmingly entertaining of tales.

* TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE was selected as one of the GUARDIAN’s top ten ‘Fiction Paperbacks of the Year, 2000

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Reviews

Los Angeles Times
Smart and sassy... Precious' progress is charted in passages that have the power to amuse or shock or touch the heart, sometimes all at once
Newsweek
One of the most memorable heroines in any modern fiction
Evening Standard
Delightful
John Leland, Femaledetective.com
was brilliant, 'Tears of the Giraffe', the second in the series is sublime.
Detective Agency’
Where 'The No. 1 Ladies
Sunday Times
Among the greatest comfort-reads of all time
Edinburgh REVIEW
This is a superior piece of detective fiction, written in simple, direct but effective prose.
Sydney Morning Herald
McCall Smith's satire is as gentle as a warm bath
- Anthony Minghella ** 'So elegant and understated is the author's style that the novel seems to transcend age’
I was enchanted by the character of Precious Ramotswe and the sly humour of Alexander McCall Smith's writing, his deft evocation of a culture
USA Today
Enthralling... Mma Ramotswe is someone readers can't help but love
New York Times Book Review
The Miss Marple of Botswana
Sunday Telegraph
Soothing, full of hope