Mma Ramotswe

Mma Ramotswe is a middle-aged woman who has recently become engaged after promising herself she would never marry again. Mma Ramotswe once was married to a man who was unkind to her and that marriage ended after the death of a baby. Mma Ramotswe has become an independent woman in the years since that marriage, beginning her own business and caring for herself without feeling a need to be dependent on a man. However, Mma Ramotswe has found a man who needs her to care for him and she is quite content in the relationship.

Mma Ramotswe also has taken in two orphans. The eldest is a girl who is required to use a wheelchair. The younger child is a boy who has recently begun to have some trouble with his behavior. Mma Ramotswe worries about these children even as she finds herself confronted with several other...