The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon
by Alexander McCall Smith
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 971408704X
- ISBN 13
- 9789714087040
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Littlehampton, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Fiction - Hardback First edition Signed. This book has never seen a shop!
Synopsis
Alexander McCall Smith is the author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, the Isabel Dalhousie series, the Portuguese Irregular Verbs series, and the 44 Scotland Street series. He is professor emeritus of medical law at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and has served with many national and international organizations concerned with bioethics. He was born in what is now known as Zimbabwe and taught law at the University of Botswana. He lives in Scotland.
Reviews
On Oct 30 2013, CloggieDownunder said:
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon is the fourteenth book in the popular Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency series by British author, Alexander McCall Smith. Botswana’s first female private detective has a few interesting cases to solve: a solicitor asks her to verify the identity of a young man who is the beneficiary of a will; and the proprietor of the Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon is subject to threats and slander from an unknown quarter. All the more challenging for Mma Ramotswe, as Mma Makutsi is off having a baby. Mma Makutsi faces childbirth with ease, although she has slightly less aplomb when dealing with a cobra in her new house. While it seems Phuti’s interfering aunt may be a problem with the baby, apprentice Charlie’s reaction to this Radiphuti baby is indeed a surprise. And has the terrible Violet Sephoto been up to more mischief? Mma Ramotswe muses on flats and hats, ants and aunts, names, wet nurses, superstitions and traditional ways, other people’s marriages, beer and beauty treatments, the effect of hot weather on business, taking the time to listen, optimistic accounting, the entire truth, protecting one’s sources and private milk. She counts her blessings, misses Grace, finds the perfect present for the baby, gets her tiny white van comprehensively stuck in the mud, has her feet lovingly washed and receives a charming letter from Clovis Anderson, that revered author of the Principles of Private Detection. There are no prizes for guessing which of the apprentices finally qualifies as a mechanic. Mr J L B Matekoni takes steps to become a modern husband, one of which includes baked beans and sausages. As usual, this instalment is charming, uplifting and heart-warming.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Man (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- sig00074
- Title
- The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon
- Author
- Alexander McCall Smith
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 971408704X
- ISBN 13
- 9789714087040
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2013
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About The Book Man
I began selling books by chance at an Antiques & Collectors Fair. I now sell at fairs in the south east of England - Antiques & Collectors, Craft & Gift, Military, Christmas, Toy & Train etc. Now is the time to spread further afield. I tend to sell non-fiction, mainly history and art, although I will sell fiction if it is a signed first edition.
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