Francesca Segal

Head to the blissful tropical island of Tuga in this funny, moving, uplifting summer read'Absolutely blissful... Get both books in the series: I’ll eat my hat if you don’t love them' India Knight, Sunday TimesREADERS LOVE ISLAND CALLING: ‘A dream island escape’ ‘An uplifting, original story with such wonderful characters. Packed with humour…The perfect holiday read’‘Perfect for the summer holidays – I loved it’‘A gorgeous summer read’‘A fabulous return to the wonderful Island of Tuga’What if your mother knows you better than you know yoursel? n the remote island of Tuga de Oro, vet Charlotte Walker has been taken to the islanders’ hearts and, between days on the farms and nights with a new love interest, she’s content to remain in blissful retreat from her real life, in London. Just for now, obviously. Until 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 hope-filled, Island Calling is the joyous second novel in the Tuga Island Trilogy – about mothers and daughters; about holding on and letting go. PRAISE FOR THE TUGA ISLAND TRILOGY:‘A much-needed escape, I warmly recommend this beauty’ NIGELLA LAWSON‘A magical novel, so uplifting, heartwarming, funny . . . One of my favourite books OF ALL TIME’ MARIAN KEYES‘Brilliantly and thoroughly imagined. I didn’t want to go home’ NICK HORNBY‘Sparkling and sophisticated’ JESSIE BURTON

*** Preorder the brilliant second novel in the ''Glorious Tuga'' series, from Costa Prize-winning author, Francesca Segal ***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. Probably, she ought to feel worse than she does. But the islanders have taken Charlotte to their hearts and somehow, between days on the farms and nights with a new 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 hope-filled, Island Calling is a joyous novel about mothers and daughters; about holding on and letting go.PRAISE FOR WELCOME TO GLORIOUS TUGA:’A much-needed escape, I warmly recommend this beauty’ NIGELLA LAWSON‘A magical novel, so uplifting, heartwarming, funny’ MARIAN KEYES‘Brilliantly and thoroughly imagined. I didn''t want to go home’ NICK HORNBY‘Sparkling and sophisticated’ JESSIE BURTON

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.

'A very smart, soulful, compelling novel' Nick Hornby What does it take to be a family? Julia has fallen deeply, unexpectedly in love. James is her second chance, and everything she never knew she wanted. It's perfect but for two things: their children. Julia's beloved daughter Gwen loathes James and James's son Nathan takes pleasure in antagonising his new stepsister. Uniting two households is never easy, but the teenagers' unexpected actions will eventually threaten everyone's hard-won happiness.