Island Calling
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:19th Jun '25
Should be back in stock very soon
This hardback is available in another edition too:
- Paperback£9.99(9781529918816)
What if your mother knows you better than you know yourself?
'Absolutely blissful... Get both books in the series: I’ll eat my hat if you don’t love them' India Knight, Sunday Times
🌴 READERS LOVE ISLAND CALLING 🌴:
’An enchanting, funny novel full of beguiling characters!’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
’Thoroughly enjoyable’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
’A fabulous return to the wonderful Island of Tuga’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
’I adore all the characters’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
On 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.
‘Beguiling ... Segal is writing in a comic tradition that runs from Jane Austen to David Nicholls’' Observer
PRAISE FOR WELCOME TO GLORIOUS TUGA:
‘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
This novel has everything: lovely writing, a tropical setting, a whole cleverly and perfectly invented world, highly romantic romance, a quest, a fully-realised cast of characters, excellent jokes, and a huge amount of heart. What more could you want? * India Knight *
'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 *
Light and shade mingle in a narrative that is witty, soulful and escapist in all the right ways * Mail on Sunday *
[Segal] has written something almost defiantly classical: shapely, generous, intricately resolved… The brilliance of Island Calling is that it knows escape is a fiction and offers that fiction, precisely, as solace * Observer *
‘What I enjoy most about Island Calling is how immersive it is. I felt like I was hiking through this lush island with Charlotte ... For all the joy of this tiny island, it is a community thrumming with secrets. … If there is an ultimate holiday read, this is it’ * Pandora Sykes *
'An utter joy' * Red *
This second book is just as irresistible as the first, offering a sharp dissection of mother-daughter bonds… Wise, funny and very romantic * i *
'Absolutely blissful ... Get both [books in the series]: I’ll eat my hat if you don’t love them' * India Knight, Sunday Times *
Dopamine in book form! * Red, *Books of the Year* *
'I can't think of anything I'd rather read if I were in proximity to sand and sea (though it would be so cheering in the depths of winter too). Francesca Segal has, incredibly, invented a whole island ... The result is deeply satisfying, engrossing, and utterly charming. ... Do yourself a favour and read these [WELCOME TO GLORIOUS TUGA and ISLAND CALLING], whether you're going away or not: they are summer between covers' * India Knight *
ISBN: 9781784745400
Dimensions: 240mm x 160mm x 30mm
Weight: 519g
320 pages