Excerpt from Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

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.

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