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 for ever. 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 …
