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Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley

Lily and the Octopus

by Steven Rowley
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  • Jun 7, 2016, 320 pages
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  • May 2017, 320 pages
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It's a good effort, one she makes for me. But if I'm being honest, it isn't her best. Instinctually she probably already knows what is fast becoming clear to me: she is the whelk; she is the crab; she is the snail.

The octopus is hungry.

And it is going to have her.

Excerpted from Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley. Copyright © 2016 by Steven Rowley. Excerpted by permission of Simon & Schuster. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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