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Author Joyce, Rachel, author.

Title Miss Benson's beetle : a novel / Rachel Joyce.

Publication Info. Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2021.
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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  LP JOYCE, R.    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Large Print Materials  LARGE PRINT JOYCE    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  LARGE PRINT JOYCE, RACHEL    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  LP JOYCE    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Reading Room  LP JOYCE, RACHEL    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  LP JOYCE    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Large Print Materials  LARGE PRINT JOYCE    Check Shelf
Edition Large print edition.
Description 511 pages (large print) : illustration, map ; 23 cm
Physical Medium large print rdafs
Note Includes discussion questions.
Regular print version previously published by: Dial Press.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "She's going too far to go it alone. 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 wherever 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."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Hylurgus ligniperda -- Fiction.
Women naturalists -- Fiction.
Women explorers -- Fiction.
Paid companions (Household employees) -- Fiction.
Beetles -- Fiction.
Female friendship -- Fiction.
Cryptozoology -- Fiction.
British -- New Caledonia -- Fiction.
Nineteen fifties -- Fiction.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
New Caledonia -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Beetles. (OCoLC)fst00829832
British. (OCoLC)fst00839044
Cryptozoology. (OCoLC)fst00884605
Female friendship. (OCoLC)fst00922609
Large type books. (OCoLC)fst00992678
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Nineteen fifties. (OCoLC)fst01037791
Paid companions (Household employees) (OCoLC)fst01938443
Women explorers. (OCoLC)fst01177666
Women naturalists. (OCoLC)fst01178193
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
New Caledonia. (OCoLC)fst01212756
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640
Historical fiction.
ISBN 9781643588636 (large print) (hardback : alkaline paper)
164358863X (large print) (hardback : alkaline paper)
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