A cobra has been found in Precious Ramotsweβs office. Then a nurse from a local medical clinic reveals that faulty bloodβpressure readings are being recorded there. And Botswana has a new advice columnist, Aunty Emang, whose advice is rather curt for Mma Ramotsweβs taste.
All this means a lot of work for our heroine and her inestimable assistant, Grace Makutsi, and they are, of course, up to the challenge. But thereβs trouble brewing in Mma Makutsiβs own life. When Phuti Radiphuti misses their customary dinner date, she begins to wonder if he is having second thoughts about their engagement. And while Mma Makutsi may be able to buy that fashionably narrow (and uncomfortable) pair of blue shoes, it may not buy her the happiness that Mma Ramotswe promises her sheβll find in the simpler thingsβin contentment with the world and enough tea to smooth over the occasional bumps in the road.
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