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Miss Benson's beetle / Rachel Joyce - London : Black Swan, 2021. - 407, [1] strona ; 20 cm.
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...
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Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize
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