My Friend The Octopus Georgia East covering 200 species - more

covering 200 species - more than any mushroom book in the region to date

and reading the original story

Helen Browning shines a light on the secret lives of these mischievous

and the social and political vicissitudes of life under colonialism and war

My Friend The Octopus Georgia East covering 200 species - moreEngland, 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