Twelveyearold Gussie was born with a rare lifethreatening heart diseasebut it hasnt hampered her curiosity. When she reads about the burying beetlewhich has the... » 

Twelveyearold Gussie was born with a rare lifethreatening heart diseasebut it hasnt hampered her curiosity. When she reads about the burying beetlewhich has the unusual habit of burying dead birds mice and other smallanimals by digging away the earth beneath them it becomes her mission to findone. As she searches the Cornish coast for the elusive insect Gussie learns belike the burying beetle to bury things past and to live. «