Happy and uplifting

Rachel Joyce just keeps getting better with each book. This is the story of two very ordinary women who go on an adventure to the South Pacific to look for a possibly extinct species of beetle. Miss Benson is a stuffy, middle-aged,spinster school-teacher who decides on a whim to make the trip and engages flighty, promiscuous, pink clad Enid Pretty to accompany her. Both characters come to life in the novel. They are real and honest and funny and the story of their evolving friendship is entertaining and beautifully put together.