IN THE TIME OF FIVE PUMPKINS

Book 26 in the multi million copy bestselling and perennially adored No 1 Ladies Detective Agency series The rains are coming but not just yet When they do there will be green shoots of growth throughout Botswana Pumpkins will flourish particularly those of Mma Potokwani matron of a children s home and old friend of Precious Ramotswe Mma Potokwani and Mma Ramotswe have many other things to talk about including a new friendship that Mr J L B Matekoni has struck up with Mr Freddie Mogorosi a prominent figure in the motor trade Freddie Mogorosi has invited Mr J L B Matekoni to go fishing with him on the local dam which is home to some fairly nasty crocodiles They do not catch anything but something nearly catches them In the meantime Mma Ramotswe looks into what seems to be a straightforward matter involving a husband who thinks his wife may be having affair But there is a surprise in store she it transpires suspects that he himself has a lover This is obviously a case that will require tact which of course is a quality Mma Ramotswe has in abundance Along with kindness For Botswana is a kind country and in this latest visit to The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency we are reassured that no matter how unhappy the world may be there is always