TY  - BOOK
AU  - McCall Smith,Alexander
TI  - Precious and Grace
T2  - No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
SN  - 9781408708118
U1  - 823.92 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - London
PB  - Little, Brown
KW  - Ramotswe, Precious
KW  - No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency (Imaginary organization)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Women private investigators
KW  - Women-owned business enterprises
KW  - Businesswomen
KW  - Botswana
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - 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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