Blue Shoes and Happiness (2006)
Mma Ramotswe is happy. Her marriage and her work are going very well, especially now she had been able to shake off the ghastly Note. She ponders the things people need, or believe they need to attain happiness.
This might have been a good chance to again touch on Mr J L B Matekoni's attack of depression, and how anyone in its grip can achieve no happiness, however hard they and others try, until they manage to work their way out of it with professional help. But Sandy doesn't do that. And that's okay, he is the author after all, and it is his book.
So, of course, Mma Ramotswe finds herself involved in a range of stories involving people attempting to obtain those things they think they require to be happy. These include a cook being blackmailed, and a nurse who thinks her doctor is a rip-off merchant.
And while doing these things Mma Ramotswe discovers the health risks of her traditional build and weight, and ponders the possibility she might be happier if she lost weight. So she goes on a diet.
In the garage, the new employee, the unfairly criminalised and imprisoned Mr Polopetsi, is, despite his treasured new employment by Mr J L B Matekoni at Mma Ramotswe's behest, still desperately short of money. He is also desperate to reward Mma Ramotswe for her kindness. So, he asks to help with her detective work and finds the cause of a nature reserve staff's fears.
And what of Mma Makutsi? Finally engaged to a lovely man, with enough wealth to make even Violet Sephotho jealous, Phuti Radiphuti, she finds herself in a disagreement with him over feminism. And perhaps, almost before it has started, her engagement is over.
So, where do the blue shoes come in? Well, you'll just have to read the book. And they don't even fit very well.
This might have been a good chance to again touch on Mr J L B Matekoni's attack of depression, and how anyone in its grip can achieve no happiness, however hard they and others try, until they manage to work their way out of it with professional help. But Sandy doesn't do that. And that's okay, he is the author after all, and it is his book.
So, of course, Mma Ramotswe finds herself involved in a range of stories involving people attempting to obtain those things they think they require to be happy. These include a cook being blackmailed, and a nurse who thinks her doctor is a rip-off merchant.
And while doing these things Mma Ramotswe discovers the health risks of her traditional build and weight, and ponders the possibility she might be happier if she lost weight. So she goes on a diet.
In the garage, the new employee, the unfairly criminalised and imprisoned Mr Polopetsi, is, despite his treasured new employment by Mr J L B Matekoni at Mma Ramotswe's behest, still desperately short of money. He is also desperate to reward Mma Ramotswe for her kindness. So, he asks to help with her detective work and finds the cause of a nature reserve staff's fears.
And what of Mma Makutsi? Finally engaged to a lovely man, with enough wealth to make even Violet Sephotho jealous, Phuti Radiphuti, she finds herself in a disagreement with him over feminism. And perhaps, almost before it has started, her engagement is over.
So, where do the blue shoes come in? Well, you'll just have to read the book. And they don't even fit very well.
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