![]() ![]() However life there in this hot and humid country is not at all what she expected and her husband seems like a completely different man. Morocco reveals many secrets thought buried in the sands…ġ9 year old Gwendolyn Hooper is newly married and soon follows her husband to his tea plantation in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) Amy is also searching for the truth – this time about a postcard she found on her Aunt Lillian’s mantlepiece from her missing son Glen. She grew up on a saffron farm in Cornwall and is recently married but her mother’s death haunts her so her husband offers her a trip to Morocco and a cookery course which she uses to explore her pastĪmy on the other hand is a photographer who goes to Morocco to capture the sights sounds and smells of an exotic land. Nell has just lost her mum, a mum who has been hiding things from her and which she now wants to find out. From the Souk to the Hammam, this is a real insider’s tour….įrom Cornwall to exotic Morocco, this is a journey on so many levels as two young women become friends and find that Morocco will change their lives in many very unexpected ways. Need a good travel guide to Morocco? Then look no further that Zohra’s Ladder and other Moroccan Tales by Pamela Windo as she guides us around some of the more lesser known and hidden parts of the country. Having said that, we are dying to go back via fiction so will be hunting out more and more! For those people wanting something grittier, you'll be disappointed, but for everyone else looking for 1¾ of escapism, this is what you're looking for.Travelling the world with books is interesting and fun and there’s so much to see in even just one continent! Today we look at two.Africa and Asia…since there are so many favourites from this part of the world. ![]() The production quality was very good with the Botswanian Tourist Board probably very happy at the positive light their country is portrayed under. ![]() Overall the adaptation stayed very loyal to the book and remained a light hearted look at life in Botswana. There are some comic moments and some heart breaking moments. Over the remaining hour and a quarter we see how she solve cases relating to unfaithful husbands, idle fathers, insurance fraud and missing children. After a slow start to help introduce the characters, the work of Precious starts in earnest. This time-slot has traditionally been a chance for the BBC to show a production which will appeal to all the family and N1LDA fitted the category very well. ![]() It was aired on BBC1 on Sunday 23rd March 2008, Easter Sunday. The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency was the first novel in the series by Alexander McCall Smith and as such the first to be turned into a television adaptation. ![]()
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