Verdict: carrot
Szczurek assures us that Alexander McCall Smith’s Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, No. 10 in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Series, is not to be missed!
McCall Smith does not dwell on the topics most other authors writing about Africa focus on: poverty, violence and misery.
Critics have pointed out that this is the greatest fault of the series, and yet I cannot help wondering what is so wrong about putting southern Africa on the literary map in the best possible light, as a warm-hearted place where good things do happen. So what if the work leans towards the unrealistic? Most fiction has that disconcerting quality.
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