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Francesca Segal
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Francesca Segal

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Francesca Segal is an award-winning writer and journalist. Her first novel, The Innocents, won the 2012 Costa First Novel Award, the 2012 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction, the 2013 Sami Rohr Prize, and a Betty Trask Award. Her most recent novel, The Awkward Age (‘smart, soulful and compelling’, Nick Hornby) was published in 2017.

Books by Francesca Segal

Mother Ship

A dramatic, moving and life-affirming memoir about motherhood, the NHS and what it means to care

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The Innocents

A very modern love story which tells the age-old tale of love, temptation, confusion, commitment, and coming to terms with the choices we've made

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The Awkward Age

The second novel from Costa prize-winning author Francesca Segal - a clever, sharp, funny and moving story about family, starting over and how much we let our children get away with

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