The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus av Emma Knight

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<p><b>'A spellbinding debut about friendship, motherhood, first love, and the choices that bind us' CARLEY FORTUNE</b><br><b><br>'Addictive, nostalgic and comforting, this layered family mystery crept round my heart' CLAIRE DAVERLEY<br><br></b>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.<br><br>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 . . .<br><br>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 m