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KNIGHT EMMA THE LIFE CYCLE OF THE COMMON OCTOPUS

*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*  'An unputdownable novel about female friendship and the events
that shape us' COSMOPOLITAN  'Addictive  nostalgic and comforting  this layered family mystery
crept round my heart' CLAIRE DAVERLEY   Pen and Alice  childhood best friends from Toronto  are
in their first year at the University of Edinburgh. Each has come to the city for her own
reasons.  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
Lennox's centuries-old estate with his enveloping  fascinating family  Pen begins to unravel
her parents' secret  just as she's falling in love for the first time . . .  Meanwhile Alice 
an aspiring actor  sees university as her route to the West End and beyond. The star of this
year's theatre production  she's making the most of the power she wields as an object of desire
- until an affair with her tutor begins to slip from her control.   Witty  warm and wildly
unputdownable  The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus is at once a love story and an irresistible
mystery  a celebration of female friendship  and a study of how looking back can help us move
forward.  'A book to lose yourself in' FRAN LITTLEWOOD 'Brimming with heart' JENNY JACKSON
'Luminous . . . as smart as it is delicious  as nostalgic as it feels fresh' ASHLEY AUDRAIN
'Joyous  clever  and wholly transportive' KATY HAYS 'Emma Knight's witty  wistful debut will
keep you up all night' JOANNA RAKOFF 'A spellbinding debut about friendship  motherhood  first
love  and the choices that bind us' CARLEY FORTUNE    Readers love The Life Cycle of the Common
Octopus  'A beautiful ode to youth   motherhood   and becoming ' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐  ' Emotional and
beautiful ' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ' Ten stars !' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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