About the book: 2021 / One morning Miss Benson, a schoolteacher, decides to change her life and travel from post-war London to the other side of the world in search of an amazing creature from books that her father showed her as a child. To implement this idea, she needs an assistant, and the most unsuitable candidate for this role responds to her advertisement in the newspaper. So, two completely different women will cross the ocean in search of the incredible golden Caledonian beetle, not knowing that they will find much more along the way, what you were looking for. “If you want to change your life and change yourself, go on a journey.” A fascinating travel novel from the widely known and beloved British writer Rachel Joyce throughout the world. “Miss Benson’s Beetle” is a real balm for the soul that you will love and cry and laugh.