Kate’s 2¢: “The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon: by Alexander McCall Smith

“The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon: by Alexander McCall Smith

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   Through dialogue and streams of consciousness, Private detective Precious Ramotswe takes us into her world of sleuthing out the truth.  The colloquialisms  made me smile, at times, for example, if someone is dead, they’d say he is late

   I needed to listen carefully to know who was talking as many of the names seemed to be just “Mrs.”, but in the local language.

   It was an interesting story full of intrigue as to the relationship of the nephem.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Alexander McCall Smith was born in Bulawayo in 1948 to parents of British origin (his grandfather was born in Nairn, Scotland)[citation needed] in the British colony of Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe), the youngest of four children.[5] His father worked as a public prosecutor in Bulawayo.[6] McCall Smith was educated at the Christian Brothers College in Bulawayo before moving to Scotland at age 17 to study law at the University of Edinburgh, where he earned his LLB[7] and PhD degrees.[5][8] He soon taught at Queen’s University Belfast, and while teaching there he entered a literary competition: one a children’s book and the other a novel for adults. He won in the children’s category.

   He has gained the most fame for his No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, featuring Mma Precious Ramotswe and set in Gaborone, Botswana. The first novel was published in 1998. By 2009, the No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series had sold more than 20 million copies in English editions.[2]

   According to his publisher in Edinburgh, “He was, until 2005, a professor of medical law at the University of Edinburgh, but gave up the position to concentrate on his writing and now writes full time.”[20]

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon DB77800

McCall Smith, Alexander. Reading time: 9 hours, 8 minutes.

Read by Mitzi Friedlander. A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.

Mystery and Detective Stories

Bestsellers

Botswana. Private detective Precious Ramotswe juggles two cases: The owner of the newly opened Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon believes she is being sabotaged, and an attorney fears an imposter is posing as the nephew of a dead farmer. Bestseller. 2013.

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