The release date for the English version of 'Miss Benson's Beetle' by
Rachel Joyce is Nov 2020. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
It's too far for her to do it alone.
As of 1950. A spinster and schoolteacher named Margery Benson is struggling to make ends meet while living off scraps in post-World War II London. When she eventually hits her breaking point, she quits her work and her menial life to embark on a global quest to find the golden beetle of New Caledonia, a bug that may or may not exist and the object of her childhood fascination. The lady she ends up with is the last person she had in mind when she posts an advertisement for an assistant to go with her. Enid Pretty is a fun-loving woman who always appears to be attracting problems with her tight-fitting pink suit and pom-pom shoes. Together, however, these two British ladies are dragged into an extraordinary transoceanic journey that fulfils every wish and reveals something none of them could have predicted: the transforming power of friendship.