Books and More...Miss Benson's Beetle- author, Rachel Joyce

Miss Margery Benson has survived WWII London as a school teacher floating from one day to the next. It is 1950, an incident occurs that triggers Miss Benson into waking up from the fog of her day-to-day schedule and making a change. Influenced by memories from her childhood, she takes a chance shifting her direction to an expedition for a golden beetle presumably found in New Caledonia. She chooses an assistant who is as different in every way from Miss Benson and so begins the unlikely partnership for this fascinating tale taking them across the ocean to another world.