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The delightful 17th installment of the ever-popular, perennially best-selling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series.
Alexander McCall Smith is one of the world's most prolific and
popular authors. His career has been a varied one: for many years
he was a professor of medical law and worked in universities in the
United Kingdom and abroad. After the publication of his highly
successful No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, which has sold
over 20 million copies, he devoted his time to writing fiction and
has seen his various series translated into over 40 languages and
become bestsellers through the world.
McCall Smith won the prestigious The Dagger in the Library Award in
2004, an award bestowed by the Crime Writers' Association. Adjoa
Andoh is a British film, television, stage and radio actress. She
is a familiar face on British television – starring in two series
of Doctor Who, BBC's long-running medical drama Casualty and
popular soap opera EastEnders – and has more recently appeared as
Lady Danbury in the Netflix series Bridgerton.
A renowned stage actor, Andoh has been celebrated for lead roles at
the National Theatreand the Royal Shakespeare Company, where she
played Portia in Julius Caesar, Ulysses in Troilus & Cressida and
Helen of Troy in The Odyssey. In 2019 she conceived, co-directed,
and played Richard II at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, in the UK’s
first all women-of-colour production. She made her Hollywood debut
in 2009, starring alongside Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon in Clint
Eastwood’s biographical sports film Invictus. Other film
appearances include Adulthood, Brotherhood, and I Is A Long
Memoried Woman.
Andoh has been a BBC radio actor for more than 30 years and is an
accomplished and award-winning narrator of more than 150
audiobooks, including Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and
Naomi Alderman’s The Power and all of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective
Agency series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith. Andoh won the
Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year for #10 in that series, Tea
Time for the Traditionally Built. In 2023 Andoh was elected an
Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was on the
judging panel for the 2023 Booker Prize.
'There is no end to the pleasure that may be extracted from these
books.'
*New York Times*
'Enchanting ... An inspiration to us all ... The sweet, chuckling
voice of Precious Ramotswe falls gentle on the ear.'
*New York Times Book Review*
'Enchanting ... McCall Smith's blend of gentle humor and insights
into human nature is irresistible.'
*Publishers Weekly*
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