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Sep 23, 2012modestgoddess rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
This is another delightful outing with Isabel Dalhousie. McCall Smith writes such mannered lovely prose and writes it so engagingly. I loved the part when Charlie says a naughty word beginning with "s", and the playschool teacher is so mortified she won't even say it so she writes it down: "And underneath was written a word in common use among builders, soldiers, teenagers and novelists." Haha! - but not this novelist! He's so genteel.... I kind of wanted Charlie to be caught saying it again, on a day when Grace was picking him up, and her talk to him about it, and see what Isabel and Jamie did with that. - Also liked the mushroom scene and the quote, "There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists"! So many treasures in here, and in every Dalhousie novel (and the Precious Ramotswe ones, too). How does he do it? and long may he continue!