How long does it take to read The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon?
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon by Alexander McCall Smith takes about 4 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 14 of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Previous: The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection Next: The Handsome Man's De Luxe Café
About 4 hours 30 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2013. 245 pages, about 67,375 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 48 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series is moving to the fall! In the latest book in the beloved best-selling series of mysteries set in Botswana, Mma Ramotswe is asked to help the proprietor of the Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon, who is having trouble with her business. The salon has suffered some unfortunate events, including face cream that burns the skin. Could someone be trying to put the salon out of business? Meanwhile, on the home front, Mma Makutsi is going to have a baby. But in Botswana--a land where family has always been held above all else but which is on the crossroads between old and new--this may be cause for as much controversy as celebration"-- "In the latest book in the beloved best-selling series of mysteries set in Botswana, Mma Ramotswe is asked to help the proprietor of the Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon, who is having trouble with her business. The salon has suffered some unfortunate events, including face cream that burns the skin. Could someone be trying to put the salon out of business? Meanwhile, on the home front, Mma Makutsi is going to have a baby. But in Botswana--a land where family has always been held above all else but which is on the crossroads between old and new--this may be cause for as much controversy as celebration"--
Subjects: Fiction, Women private investigators, Private investigators, fiction, Botswana, fiction, Social life and customs, Families
