Is hitting a handsome professor with a vacuum cleaner a good way to start a new relationship? Em doesn’t think so, and she’s happy being single. But there was definitely a spark, and it didn’t come from the hoover.

When Em discovers that her fiancé’s having an affair, she leaves her stressful call centre job, packs up her paints and easel and moves to the coast to build a better life on her own. But her new life becomes more complicated when a charming professor, Jack Carver, arrives for a holiday. Who’s he avoiding? And what do Jack and Em have in common?

Set in Birmingham, London and the fictional small town of Dashford on the beautiful North Devon coast, ‘Be More Octopus’ is an entertaining, closed-door, friends-to-lovers, romantic comedy following the twists and turns of Em and Jack’s love lives with lots of ‘will they, won’t they?’ moments to keep you turning the pages.