“Delightful. … A fresh and unforgettable story about the power of human kindness. Highly recommended.”
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The Girl Who Married a Lion and Other Tales from Africa
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—Publishers Weekly
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Alexander McCall Smith is a professor of medical law at Edinburgh University. He was born in what is now known as Zimbabwe and taught law at the University of Botswana. He is the author of over fifty books on a wide range of subjects, including specialist titles such as Forensic Aspects of Sleep and The Criminal Law of Botswana, children’s books such as The Perfect Hamburger, and a collection of stories called Portuguese Irregular Verbs.
First Anchor Books Edition, August 2002
Copyright ©1998 by Alexander McCall Smith
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United States by
Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York,
and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada
Limited, Toronto. Originally published in softcover
