Join novelist Francesca Segal as she introduces Island Calling, the latest novel set on the fictional island of Tuga d’Oro, and celebrates the launch of Welcome to Glorious Tuga into paperback. If you've not read Welcome to Glorious Tuga yet then this will be the perfect introduction to the delightful series and for those of you who are already fans, discover what's next for zoologist Charlotte in Island Calling - a funny, moving and hope-filled novel about mothers and daughters and about holding on and letting go.
About theGlorious Tuga series
Welcome to glorious Tuga – the world’s most remote island and Charlotte Walker’s new home. Charlotte has swapped her grey life in London for a year in this tropical paradise. Officially, she’s there for conservation but the reality is far more complicated.
For somewhere on Tuga lies the answer to a truth she’s waited her whole life to learn. If she finds it, then perhaps she might finally find herself too. Enchanting, uplifting and very funny, these captivating novels are about love, belonging, and what it really means to come home.
‘Joyous, a modern-day Jane Austen meetsThe Durrells’ - Elizabeth Day
’A much-needed escape, I warmly recommend this beauty’- Nigella Lawson
‘Brilliantly and thoroughly imagined. I didn’t want to go home’ - Nick Hornby
About Francesca Segal
Francesca Segal is an award-winning writer and journalist. She is the author of three critically acclaimed novels, The Innocents (2012),The Awkward Age (2017), and Welcome to Glorious Tuga (2024) 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.
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