![]() ![]() Miss Benson’s Beetle is the fabulous new book from Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy. Set in 1950, Margery Benson has a moment of clarity, or madness depending on your outlook, and leaves her job as a teacher to go in search of a beetle. ![]() This is a story that is less about what can be found than the belief it might be found it is an intoxicating adventure story but it is also about what it means to be a woman and a tender exploration of a friendship that defies all boundaries. They will risk everything, break all the rules, and at the top of a red mountain, discover their best selves. And yet together they will be drawn into an adventure that will exceed every expectation. She is going to travel to the other side of the world to search for a beetle that may or may not exist.Įnid Pretty, in her unlikely pink travel suit, is not the companion Margery had in mind. In a devastating moment of clarity, Margery Benson abandons her dead-end job and advertises for an assistant to accompany her on an expedition. ![]()
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