TY - BOOK AU - Knight,Emma TI - The life cycle of the common octopus: a novel SN - 9780593830451 PY - 2025///] CY - [New York] PB - Pamela Dorman Books/Viking KW - College students KW - Fiction KW - Family secrets KW - Best friends KW - Friendship KW - Scotland N2 - 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 estate with his enveloping, fascinating family, Pen begins to unravel her parents’ secret, just as she’s falling in love for the first time . . . As Pen experiences the sharp shock of adulthood, she comes to rely on herself for the first time in her life ER -