Miss Benson’s Beetle is a literary fiction book by author Rachel Joyce.
The extraordinary, well-written quest in which two ordinary expeditions, abandoned women embark on an unlikely scientific expedition in the South Sea.
The best-selling book The Uncertain Pilgrimage by Harold Fry. The book follows two women on a life-changing adventure where they must risk everything, break all the rules, and discover their best selves – together.

She would go too far to go it alone.

1950. London is still reeling from the Second World War, and Margery Benson, a teacher and spinster, is trying to get through life, surviving on debris. She culminates, giving up her job and her little existence to embark on an expedition to the other side of the world in search of her childhood obsession: an insect that can exist or does not exist – the golden beetle of New Caledonia. .

She advertised for an assistant to go with her, the woman she was with was the last person she thought of. The funny Enid Pretty in her pink tights and pom-pom sandals seems to attract trouble wherever she goes. These two British women find themselves caught up in a transatlantic adventure that exceeds all expectations and delivers something neither of them expected: the transformative power of friendship.

• Miss Benson’s Beetle

• A Novel
• By: Rachel Joyce

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