Miss Benson’s Beetle is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2020 by Rachel Joyce
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by The Dial Press, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
Originally published in hardcover in the United Kingdom by Doubleday, an imprint of Transworld Publishers, a division of Penguin Random House UK, in 2020.
THE DIAL PRESS is a registered trademark and the colophon is a trademark of Penguin Random House LLC.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Names: Joyce, Rachel, author.
Title: Miss Benson’s beetle / Rachel Joyce.
Description: New York: Dial Press, [2020]
Identifiers: LCCN 2020006856 (print) | LCCN 2020006857 (ebook) | ISBN 9780812996708 (paperback) | ISBN 9780812996715 (ebook)
Classification: LCC PR6110.O98 M57 2020 (print) | LCC PR6110.O98 (ebook) | DDC 823/.92—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020006856
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020006857
Ebook ISBN 9780812996715
Book design by Caroline Cunningham, adapted for ebook
Title-page and part-title ornament: border with palm leaves: iStock/Andrea_Hill
Map by Neil Gower
Photograph on this page © Society of Antiquaries of London (Kelmscott Manor)
Cover art and design: Kimberly Glyder
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