- Published: 1 July 2025
- ISBN: 9781784745417
- Imprint: Chatto & Windus
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 320
- RRP: $38.00
Island Calling











- Published: 1 July 2025
- ISBN: 9781784745417
- Imprint: Chatto & Windus
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 320
- RRP: $38.00
'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
'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
'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