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《一個人的朝聖》作者蕾秋喬伊斯(Rachel Joyce)新作
「令人愉快的一本小說，仔細刻畫女性生命中的點滴，友情的寶貴及戰爭所造成的深遠影響。」—英國《衛報》
「節奏明快、情節生動的故事，讓人重拾閱讀的樂趣。」—《The Distance Home》作者寶拉‧山德斯
一九五零年代，二戰過後的倫敦殘破不堪，日用品如糖、奶油和茶葉仍相當短缺。瑪格麗(Margery Benson)是一名女校的家政老師，她努力地省吃儉用，卻看不到任何能帶給她希望的契機。直到有一天，學生的惡作劇令她再也無法忍受，她決定拋開安定枯燥的生活，到地球的另一端尋找傳說中的黃金甲蟲。她招募助理準備攜伴遠征，還訂了船票，不料一連串的差錯造成她在最後一刻遇到了恩妮(Enid Pretty)這個古怪的助理。瑪格麗一輩子謹慎又保守，恩妮愛打扮又會撒嬌，兩人天差地遠的個性會在一路上惹出什麼事？
《班森小姐的甲蟲》裡頭的古怪人物彷彿出自狄更斯小說，精彩荒謬的情節讓人無法自拔。這也是一個關於兩位拒絕被貼標籤的女人的冒險故事，女性友誼的動人寫照，以及給所有遠大夢想的一封情書。
(文／博客來編譯)
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A beautifully written, extraordinary quest in which two ordinary, overlooked women embark on an unlikely scientific expedition to the South Seas.”—Helen Simonson, author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry comes an uplifting, irresistible novel about two women on a life-changing adventure, where they must risk everything, break all the rules, and discover their best selves—together.
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.
Praise for Miss Benson’s Beetle:
“A hilarious jaunt into the wilderness of women’s friendship and the triumph of outrageous dreams.”—Kirkus Reviews
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