The Okavango Macbeth – review

Queen's Hall, EdinburghDuncan is king of a troop of baboons. A female baboon (Lady Macbeth) convinces the rival alpha male (Macbeth) to do him in and take top spot, which rocks the hierarchy of the troop. A baboon chorus hoots and croons reactions en masse, and the proceedings are mulled over by three conspiring primatologists, who conclude that the animal kingdom isn't so unlike ours after all.So far, so comfortably quirky. The Okavango Macbeth is the brainchild of Alexander McCall Smith, who ...

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