A delightful novel. An original story using the "odd couple" storyline.
1950's London. Two very different women end up on the same journey.
Margery, a spinster school teacher set in her minimalistic ways in an ordinary life.
Enid, a fun loving, gregarious women who wears tight hot pink clothes with pom-poms on her shoes.
One day Margery snaps. After her students act badly for the last time, she steals a pair of boots from a colleague and runs out of the school, never to return. She decides to follow her childhood dream of finding the illusive golden beetle of New Caledonia, if it even exists. She had grown up studying beetles with her father and after ruining her reputation at the school, she decides to hire an assistant and prove the fictional beetle really exists.
Enter Enid who has her own secrets and ends up as Margery's assistant by accident. Two women with nothing in common stuck in a cabin of a cross-ocean sea voyage to end up in a sort of tree house bungalow alone in the middle of a jungle at the bottom of a mountain and being pursued by a sinister man who is obsessed with Margery.
Much hilarity and adventure ensues. Watch a spirited friendship blossom. I recommend.
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