Canadian author, Emma Knight's debut novel. First edition and first printing. The book went into multiple printings and therefore the first printing is very scarce in the market.

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Title: The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus (Canadian First Edition, First Printing)
Publisher: Penguin Canada, Toronto, ON
Publication Date: 2025
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0735248729
ISBN 13: 9780735248724
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: Fine

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'A spellbinding debut about friendship, motherhood, first love, and the choices that bind us' CARLEY FORTUNE

'Luminous . . . as smart as it is delicious, as nostalgic as it feels fresh' ASHLEY AUDRAIN
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.

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