Miss Benson's Beetle
Registered by 
waterfalling
of Rockledge, Florida USA on 6/3/2023
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
waterfalling of Rockledge, Florida USA on 6/3/2023 This Book is Currently in the Wild!
1 journaler for this copy...
trade-size paperback.
from the back cover:
It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and Margery Benson, a schoolteacher and spinster, is trying to get through life, surviving on scraps. One day, she reaches her breaking point, abandoning her job and small existence to set out on an expedition to the other side of the world in search of her childhood obsession: an insect that may or may not exist - the golden beetle of New Caledonia. When she advertises for an assistant to accompany her, the woman she ends up with is the last person she had in mind. Fun-loving Enid Pretty, in her tight-fitting pink suit and pom-pom sandals, seems to attract trouble whenever she goes. But together these two British women find themselves drawn into a cross-ocean adventure that exceeds all expectations and delivers something neither of them expected to find: the transformative power of friendship.
The character of Enid Pretty is a force of nature. I might have put the book down if not for her.
from the back cover:
It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and Margery Benson, a schoolteacher and spinster, is trying to get through life, surviving on scraps. One day, she reaches her breaking point, abandoning her job and small existence to set out on an expedition to the other side of the world in search of her childhood obsession: an insect that may or may not exist - the golden beetle of New Caledonia. When she advertises for an assistant to accompany her, the woman she ends up with is the last person she had in mind. Fun-loving Enid Pretty, in her tight-fitting pink suit and pom-pom sandals, seems to attract trouble whenever she goes. But together these two British women find themselves drawn into a cross-ocean adventure that exceeds all expectations and delivers something neither of them expected to find: the transformative power of friendship.
The character of Enid Pretty is a force of nature. I might have put the book down if not for her.
Journal Entry 2 by waterfalling at Little Free Library - Brevard County offices Viera in Melbourne, Florida USA on Saturday, June 24, 2023
waterfalling at Little Free Library - Brevard County offices Viera in Melbourne, Florida USA on Saturday, June 24, 2023
Released 3 mos ago (6/24/2023 UTC) at Little Free Library - Brevard County offices Viera in Melbourne, Florida USA
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