The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY “Undeniably delicious.” —The New York Times “A spellbinding debut about friendship motherhood first love and the choices that bind us. . . I couldn't put it down!” — Carley Fortune #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Summer Will Be Different A witty atmospheric and brilliantly told novel that offers compelling portraits of womanhood motherhood and female friendship along with the irresistible intrigue surrounding an extraordinary British family Arriving at the University of Edinburgh for her first term 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 Lord Lennox’s centuries-old