Precious and Grace / Alexander McCall Smith.
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TextSeries: McCall Smith, Alexander, No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series ; 17.Publisher: London : Little, Brown, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 247 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781408708118; 9781408708125Subject(s): Ramotswe, Precious (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency (Imaginary organization) -- Fiction | Women private investigators -- Fiction | Women-owned business enterprises -- Fiction | Businesswomen -- Botswana -- Fiction | Botswana -- Social life and customs -- FictionGenre/Form: Detective and mystery fiction. DDC classification: 823.92 Summary: One bright morning, Precious Ramotswe - head of Botswana's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - receives a visitor: a woman from Australia. This woman asks Precious to take on a case: to find the nursemaid who raised her during her childhood in Botswana. The woman wants to thank her for being such an important part of her life. Precious has a history of successfully solving cases, but this one proves difficult and throws up a number of surprises and challenges. Back in her office, next door to the Speedy Motors Garage on Twokleng Road, Precious also has a team to manage: Mr Polopetsi, a part-time science teacher and new assistant at the agency; she mentors Charlie, a former apprentice and young man too handsome and charming for his own good - a man who has gotten himself in deep water; and then there is Precious's tumultuous but heart-warming friendship with her co-director, the fiery Grace Makutsi. Precious and Grace is a story about being a detective, the complexities of human nature, as well as lessons about gratitude and obligation.
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One bright morning, Precious Ramotswe - head of Botswana's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - receives a visitor: a woman from Australia. This woman asks Precious to take on a case: to find the nursemaid who raised her during her childhood in Botswana. The woman wants to thank her for being such an important part of her life. Precious has a history of successfully solving cases, but this one proves difficult and throws up a number of surprises and challenges. Back in her office, next door to the Speedy Motors Garage on Twokleng Road, Precious also has a team to manage: Mr Polopetsi, a part-time science teacher and new assistant at the agency; she mentors Charlie, a former apprentice and young man too handsome and charming for his own good - a man who has gotten himself in deep water; and then there is Precious's tumultuous but heart-warming friendship with her co-director, the fiery Grace Makutsi. Precious and Grace is a story about being a detective, the complexities of human nature, as well as lessons about gratitude and obligation.
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