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...happens quite a lot. I love it and I occasionally write special passages for them, where Mma Ramotswe pays particular attention to the people getting married. I think that people find that there are passages [from these books] which resonate with them, and which say something about matters that people will think about at weddings...
Over nine volumes of the Botswana-set No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series (there are 14 planned), author Alexander McCall Smith has written of the simple, lighthearted mysteries solved by Precious Ramotswe (often addressed as Mma - pronounced "ma" - Ramotswe). His latest, Tea Time For the Traditionally Built, trods much of the same territory. McCall Smith spoke to TIME about why all fiction doesn't need to be sad, the public's obsession with the idea of a hopeless Africa, and why "real" mystery writers are cooler than...
...mention where this reader came from - but I had an email from a reader that had gone into a bookshop. She didn't explain what the issue was, but she decided that she wasn't going to continue to live. And she came across Mma Ramotswe, and this changed her mind about taking her life. And she wrote me a very nice email saying that this had happened. Well, what can one say in those circumstances? We also get a lot of messages from people who have, say, been having chemotherapy. That's a very common thing...
This phrase you use as the title of your book is the way Mma Ramotswe has referred to herself, before. In other words, she's a little on the big side. When you were first conceiving the character, was she always going to be "traditionally built...
...future novel. McCall-Smith, a former professor of medical ethics at the University of Edinburgh, was born in Zimbabwe and lived for many years in Botswana. His fictional oeuvre includes “The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency” series, about the adventures of Mma Ramotswe, a female detective in Botswana, and the “Sunday Philosophy Club” series, featuring the philosopher Isabel Dalhousie, as well as serial fiction works. In his talk, “How to Do Things with People who Aren’t: The Moral Responsibility of the Author...