Island Calling

Francesca Segal

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English

Chatto & Windus
01 July 2025

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Adult & contemporary romance; Fiction: special features

Series: Tuga Trilogy

The delicious second instalment of the Glorious Tuga trilogy is a very funny and moving story of mothers and daughters (and a tortoise called Gloria Gaynor) set on everyone's favourite tropical island
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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

By: Francesca Segal
Imprint: Chatto & Windus
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 388g
ISBN: 9781784745417
ISBN 10: 1784745413
Series: Tuga Trilogy
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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.'

Reviews for Island Calling

'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 *