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~ New Release - 2025
Arriving at the University of Edinburgh for her first term, Pen knows her divorced parents back in Canada are hiding something from her. Hoping she'll find answers here in Scotland, she's excited to be invited to one of her father's old friend (now a famous writer)'s centuries-old estate she begins to unravel her parents' secret, and perhaps falling in love for the first time . . .
Witty, warm, and wildly unputdownable, The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus is at once a love story and an irresistible mystery that celebrates female friendship, campus life, sexual awakening, as well as an exploration of the many ways women can become mothers in this world and how looking back can help us move forward.
“Knight has crafted a tantalizing yet quietly touching debut about inheritance, emerging sexuality and what it truly means to come into one’s own.” -- New York Times Book Review