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Island Calling

Series: Tuga Trilogy
Brief Description
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. Preorder the brilliant second novel in the Glorious Tuga series, from Costa Prize-winning author,... Read More
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Island Calling

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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.

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 stormβ€”Charlotte's mother arrives. Lucinda Compton-Neville knows an identity crisis when she sees one and has come to haul her daughter back on courseβ€”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

Series: Tuga Trilogy

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781784745417

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 June 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Chatto & Windus

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 40.0mm

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 700g

Pages: 384

About the Author

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.'

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