The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party is a 2011 novel by Alexander McCall Smith and the twelfth installment in the The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.[1]
Precious Ramotswe is taunted by a dream in which she is driving her old white van. Later, Ramotswe discovers that her van is running again, and sets out to retrieve it. Meanwhile, Charlie has gotten a girl pregnant with twin boys and feeling guilty, runs away. Ramotswe investigates a case of rural jealousy in which cattle are being injured. Violet Sephotho runs for Botswana Parliament which is Botswana's worst nightmare.