Sneak preview
Nosing about on The Scotsman website in search of links for my previous post on the novel Espresso Tales, I find a lengthy extract from Alexander McCall Smith’s latest No1 Ladies’ Detective Agency book The Good Husband of Zebra Drive. Too good to pass up on. Here’s a brief bit and a link:
Exclusive extract of Alexander McCall Smith’s new novel
IT IS useful, people generally agree, for a wife to wake up before her husband. Mma Ramotswe always rose from her bed an hour or so before Mr JLB Matekoni - a good thing for a wife to do because it affords time to accomplish at least some of the day’s tasks. But it is also a good thing for those wives whose husbands are inclined to be irritable first thing in the morning - and by all accounts there are many of them, rather too many, in fact. If the wives of such men are up and about first, the husbands can be left to be ill-tempered by themselves - not that Mr JLB Matekoni was ever like that; on the contrary, he was the most good-natured and gracious of men, rarely raising his voice, except occasionally when dealing with his two incorrigible apprentices at Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. And anybody, no matter how even-tempered he might be, would have been inclined to raise his voice with such feckless young men. This had been demonstrated by Mma Makutsi, who tended to shout at the apprentices for very little reason, even when one of them made a simple request, such as asking the time of day. Read on here…
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