Lily and the Octopus

Steven Rowley

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Year: 2016
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781471155123
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

‘Intelligently written, finely observed and surprisingly moving, this is a book you’ll find hard to put down’ Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project

Companions come in all shapes and sizes.
Companionship lasts forever.
 
Lily and the Octopus is a novel about finding that special someone to share your life with.
For Ted Flask, that someone is Lily, and she happens to be a dog.
This novel reminds us how to love fiercely, how difficult it can be to let go and how the fight for those we love is the greatest fight of all.

Reminiscent of The Life of Pi and The Art of Racing in the Rain, with spins into magic realism and beautifully evoked universal truths of love, loyalty and loss, a hilariously sardonic and not altogether reliable narrator, and one unforgettable hound who simple wisdom will break your heart and put it back together again, Lily and the Octopus captures the search for meaning in death and introduces a dazzling new voice in fiction.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Praise for Lily and the Octopus:
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication page
• Epigraph page
• Contents
• The Octopus
• Camouflage
• Friday Afternoon
• Friday Evening
• Friday Night
• Saturday Late Afternoon
• Sunday, 4:37 A.M.
• Sunday Night
• The Invertebrate
• Stuck
• Backbone
• We’ll Take a Cup of Kindness Yet for Auld Lang Syne
• I’m Afraid There’s No Denyin’/I’m Just a Dandy-Lion
• The Tonga Room and Hurricane Bar
• The Vow
• Squeezed
• Suction
• Monday
• Tuesday
• Friday
• Sunday
• Monday
• Wednesday Night
• A Complete List of Lily’s Nicknames
• Saturday
• Ink
• 1.
• 2.
• 3.
• 4.
• 5.
• 6.
• 7.
• 8.
• The Pelagic Zone
• Fishful Thinking
• The Old Lady and the Sea
• Scar Light, Scar Bright, First Scar I See Tonight
• Midnight
• The Squall
• The Hunt
• Drowning
• Infinity (∞)
• 8 A.M.
• 9 A.M.
• 10 A.M.
• 11 A.M.
• Noon
• 1 P.M.
• 2 P.M.
• 3 P.M.
• 4 P.M.
• 5 P.M.
• 9 P.M.
• 11 P.M.
• Three Hearts
• August
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author