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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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