An Evening with Francesca Segal, author of the Tuga Trilogy
Join us for an exciting evening with Costa Prize winning author Francesca Segal to celebrate the publication of Island Calling, the next novel in the Tuga Trilogy!
'Absolutely blissful... Get both books in the series: I’ll eat my hat if you don’t love them' India Knight, Sunday Times
On remote Tuga de Oro, vet Charlotte Walker’s caseload of donkeys, cows and ailing lizards has only increased. She still can’t believe the humiliating truth about her father. She probably ought to feel worse than she does. But the islanders have taken Charlotte into their hearts and somehow, between days on the farms and nights with an absorbing (if unsuitable) love interest, she’s content to remain in blissful retreat from her real life in London. Just for now.
But real life hits the island with the force of a tropical storm: Charlotte’s mother arrives. Lucinda Compton-Neville knows an identity crisis when she sees one, and has come to haul her daughter back on course: back to England, back to her career, back home where she belongs.
Funny, moving, and filled with hope, Island Calling is a joyous novel about mothers and daughters; about holding on and letting go.
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.
In association with James Allen’s Girls’ School.
'Absolutely blissful... Get both books in the series: I’ll eat my hat if you don’t love them' India Knight, Sunday Times
On remote Tuga de Oro, vet Charlotte Walker’s caseload of donkeys, cows and ailing lizards has only increased. She still can’t believe the humiliating truth about her father. She probably ought to feel worse than she does. But the islanders have taken Charlotte into their hearts and somehow, between days on the farms and nights with an absorbing (if unsuitable) love interest, she’s content to remain in blissful retreat from her real life in London. Just for now.
But real life hits the island with the force of a tropical storm: Charlotte’s mother arrives. Lucinda Compton-Neville knows an identity crisis when she sees one, and has come to haul her daughter back on course: back to England, back to her career, back home where she belongs.
Funny, moving, and filled with hope, Island Calling is a joyous novel about mothers and daughters; about holding on and letting go.
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.
In association with James Allen’s Girls’ School.
Thursday 4 June 2026 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM (UTC+01)
Location
The Holst Hall
James Allen's Girls' School, 144 East Dulwich Grove, London, SE22 8TE
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An Evening with Francesca Segal, author of the Tuga Trilogy
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