Genre: Fiction
Year Published: 2004
If you haven't yet discovered the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, you're missing something special. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies is the sixth book in the series, so I won't speak to specific plot points that would ruin earlier books.
Cheerful Ladies is mostly about second chances, and as such it's hopeful, and rarely troubling. To be honest, it isn't my favorite in this wonderful series -- I think that would be Morality for Beautiful Girls, though that one's predecessor and successor are also exquisite -- but it's certainly of the same consistently high quality we've come to expect from McCall Smith. If everything works itself out a little too smoothly, we can't blame McCall Smith for wanting to keep the peace in this little piece of Botswana he's created in his readers' imaginations.
Recommended? I doubt you'll be able to resist it if you've made it this far in the series! (I don't recommend reading these books out of sequence.)
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