England, 1893, and aquarium fever is at its height. Twelve-year-old Vinnie Fyfe works in the tea shop at Brighton aquarium and waits for her milliner mother to return from Paris. The arrival of a giant octopus changes her life forever.
Discovering a talent for art, Vinnie begins to draw the extraordinary beast. She soon realises she can communicate with the octopus through colour and - as a gripping mystery begins to unfold - discovers what true courage really means ...
The second middle-grade historical adventure by critically acclaimed Lindsay Galvin, author of Darwin's Dragons A gripping Victorian mystery with a touching connection between a young girl and an octopus at its heart Strong STEM and natural history themes with an underwater twist
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