The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon

No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 14

By: Alexander McCall Smith

Narrated by: Lisette Lecat

Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins

Publisher's summary

Precious Ramotswe has taken on two puzzling cases. First, she is approached by the lawyer Mma Sheba, who is the executor of a deceased farmer’s estate. Mma Sheba has a feeling that the young man who has stepped forward may be falsely impersonating the farmer’s nephew in order to claim his inheritance. Mma Ramotswe agrees to visit the farm and find out what she can about the self-professed nephew.

Then the proprietor of the Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon comes to Mma Ramotswe for advice. The opening of her new salon has been shadowed by misfortune. Not only has she received a bad omen in the mail, but rumors are swirling that the salon is using dangerous products that burn people’s skin. Could someone be trying to put the salon out of business?

Meanwhile, at the office, Mma Ramotswe has noticed something different about Grace Makutsi lately. Though Mma Makutsi has mentioned nothing, it has become clear that she is pregnant . . . But in Botswana - a land where family has always been held above all else - this may be cause for controversy as well as celebration.

With genuine warmth, sympathy, and wit, Alexander McCall Smith explores some tough questions about married life, parenthood, grief, and the importance of the traditions that shape and guide our lives.

©2013 Alexander McCall Smith (P)2013 Recorded Books

Great book! Great narrator!

Loved it! McCall Smith is a compelling author. After reading the first in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Series and The World According to Bertie I decided to listen to one of his books. Lecat performed fabulously when narrating this book.

A little more involved....

.... and more about Itumalang Clovis Rhadaphuti. I may have spelled the name incorrectly, because I have not seen it in print. Either way, he is there also, and Charley grows up a little.
As ever, Lisette Lecat has the words down pat, and they just flow easily over her tongue.
Still a pure delight.

Good Listen

Entertaining, a good book. Will listen to other Alexander McCall books. Loved the narrator, Lisette Lecat.

Lighthearted but thoughtful.

A baby brings a new dimension to these stories. There are times when there are touching thoughts and reflections on the nature of humanity.

A Fan of #1Ladies Detective Agency

These stories just make you want to be a better person, and the reader is so enjoyable!

Another wonderful Mma Ramotswe tale

Between author Alexander McCall Smith and narrator Lisette Lecat, I don't know who deserves the most praise. Clearly the series is Smith's creation, but I cannot imagine another voice besides Lecat's bringing alive the characters and Botswana itself. If you have not read any titles in this series before, you might begin with The Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency, but it is not necessary to enjoy the simple joys of this series.

McCall Smith always delivers a good cup of tea

If you could sum up The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon in three words, what would they be?

I loved the humor in this book. Lisette Lecat is a such a wonderful narrator, you feel as though you know everyone living in these tales.

Turn up speed to 1.25

Great book series, pleasant characters. Nothing heavy but interesting. The reader, Lisette Lecat is great but awkwardly slow. Turning the speed up to 1.25, corrects this.

Comfort food for the brain!

Would you listen to The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon again? Why?

Yes. At bedtime. To read me to sleep.

Would you recommend The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon to your friends? Why or why not?

For followers of this lovely series, it's another little interlude to enjoy. For others? Probably not.

Which character – as performed by Lisette Lecat – was your favorite?

Each of the primary characters are so familiar now that they seem perfectly read.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

The ladies of Botswana are at it again!

Any additional comments?

You don't read these books for great adventure. You read them because they are gentle stories that give your heart a place to rest.

Super fun story and amazing narrator

I enjoyed this great installment of this series and its superb narrator. I appreciate how the characters are evolving and growing and are truly three-dimensional.