diff --git a/bookwyrm/connectors/bookwyrm_connector.py b/bookwyrm/connectors/bookwyrm_connector.py
index c7a0f2ece..6a1432f8c 100644
--- a/bookwyrm/connectors/bookwyrm_connector.py
+++ b/bookwyrm/connectors/bookwyrm_connector.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ from uuid import uuid4
 
 from django.core.exceptions import ObjectDoesNotExist
 from django.core.files.base import ContentFile
+from django.db import transaction
 import requests
 
 from bookwyrm import models
@@ -114,5 +115,22 @@ class Connector(AbstractConnector):
 
 
     def expand_book_data(self, book):
-        # TODO
-        pass
+        work = book
+        # go from the edition to the work, if necessary
+        if isinstance(book, models.Edition):
+            work = book.parent_work
+
+        # it may be that we actually want to request this url
+        editions_url = '%s/editions?page=true' % work.remote_id
+        edition_options = get_data(editions_url)
+        for edition_data in edition_options['orderedItems']:
+            with transaction.atomic():
+                edition = self.create_book(
+                    edition_data['id'],
+                    edition_data,
+                    models.Edition
+                )
+                edition.parent_work = work
+                edition.save()
+            if not edition.authors.exists() and work.authors.exists():
+                edition.authors.set(work.authors.all())
diff --git a/bookwyrm/models/book.py b/bookwyrm/models/book.py
index 04a8b2863..484f68241 100644
--- a/bookwyrm/models/book.py
+++ b/bookwyrm/models/book.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 import re
 
 from django.db import models
+from django.db.models import Q
 from django.utils import timezone
 from model_utils.managers import InheritanceManager
 
@@ -149,7 +150,12 @@ class Work(OrderedCollectionPageMixin, Book):
     @property
     def editions_path(self):
         ''' it'd be nice to serialize the edition instead but, recursion '''
-        return [e.remote_id for e in self.edition_set.all()]
+        default = self.default_edition
+        ed_list = [
+            e.local_id for e in self.edition_set.filter(~Q(id=default.id)).all()
+        ]
+        return [default.local_id] + ed_list
+
 
     def to_edition_list(self, **kwargs):
         ''' activitypub serialization for this work's editions '''