The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus: A Read with Jenna Pick

A Novel

Author  Emma Knight
The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus: A Read with Jenna Pick

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A witty, warm and brilliantly told debut that is at once a love story, a story of female friendship and motherhood, and an irresistible mystery surrounding an extraordinary British family.

Arriving at the University of Edinburgh for her first term, Pen knows her divorced parents back in Canada are hiding something from her. She believes she’ll find the answer here in Scotland, where an old friend of her father’s—now a famous writer known as Lord Lennox—lives. When she is invited to spend the weekend at Lord Lennox’s centuries-old estate with his enveloping, intriguing family, Pen begins to unravel her parents’ secret and to fall in love for the first time... 

Her best friend, Alice, an aspiring actor, is starring in…