{"product_id":"9781529433951","title":"The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus : a witty and charming novel of friendship, family and first love by Emma Knight","description":"*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*'An unputdownable novel about female friendship and the events that shape us' COSMPOLITAN'Addictive, nostalgic and comforting, this layered family mystery crept round my heart' CLAIRE DAVERLEYPen 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.\u003cp\u003ePen 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 . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWitty, warm and wildly unputdownable, The\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Life Cycle of the Common Octopus is at once a love story and an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  irresistible mystery, a celebration of female friendship, and a study of how\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  looking back can help us move forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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\u003c\/p\u003e,\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback,\u003cbr\u003ePagination: 384 pages, N\/A","brand":"Quercus Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46220501745891,"sku":"9781529433951","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1701\/6275\/files\/9781529433951.jpg?v=1743841725","url":"https:\/\/www.harbourbookshop.co.uk\/products\/9781529433951","provider":"The Harbour Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}