Island Calling

Francesca Segal is an award-winning writer and journalist. She is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Innocents (2012) and The Awkward Age (2017), and a memoir of NICU motherhood, Mother Ship (2019). Her writing has won the 2012 Costa First Novel Award, a Betty Trask Award, and been longlisted for the Women''s Prize. Segal says: ''Writing this novel was a deliberate reaching out for joy. The world can feel very bleak, and bringing Tuga to life became my own magical portal to wide beaches, crystal seas, endless sunshine, and most vitally, to a warm, eccentric community of good people mostly just trying to do their best. Tuga de Oro was a refuge for its first settlers, and I hope will offer refuge for readers, too.''

About the author

Francesca Segal is an award-winning writer. She is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Innocents (2012) and The Awkward Age (2017), and a memoir of NICU motherhood, Mother Ship (2019). Her writing has won the 2012 Costa First Novel Award, a Betty Trask Award, and been longlisted for the Women's Prize.

Segal says: 'Writing this trilogy was a deliberate reaching out for joy. The world can feel very bleak, and bringing Tuga to life became my own magical portal to wide beaches, crystal seas, endless sunshine, and most vitally, to a warm, eccentric community of good people mostly just trying to do their best. Tuga de Oro was a refuge for its first settlers, and I hope will offer refuge for readers, too.'

Report

'A rich and memorable cast in a brilliantly imagined landscape. ISLAND CALLING is every bit as charming and absorbing as Welcome to Glorious Tuga, with the added bonus of a new, entirely believably parental relationship. A joy' Nick Hornby

Product details

• Authors: Francesca Segal
• Publisher: Chatto and Windus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2025
• EAN: 9781784745417
• ISBN: 978-1-78474-541-7
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 40 mm
• Series: Tuga Trilogy; The Tuga Island Trilogy
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Adult & contemporary romance, Fiction: special features, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Romance / Romantic Comedy, FICTION / Romance / Medical, FICTION / Animals, Humorous fiction, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Tropics, Modern and Contemporary romance, Narrative theme: Journeys and voyages, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Narrative theme: love / relationships