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.
Her new novel is Welcome to Glorious Tuga.
At the Guardian Segal tagged five favorite escapist books, include:
Juliet, Naked by Nick HornbyRead about another entry on the list.
Juliet, Naked contains one of the most spectacularly hilarious and maddeningly awful boyfriends in contemporary literature.Duncan has an all-consuming obsession with Tucker Crowe, a reclusive American singer-songwriter, and Duncan’s longsuffering girlfriend Annie is forced to live, in a way, with both of them. There is gentle wish fulfilment when Tucker Crowe himself connects with lonely Annie, and a friendship ensues that sustains and empowers each of them. Sheer pleasure.
Juliet, Naked is among Matthew Norman's seven titles featuring musicians & the lure of rock stardom and Brian Boone's six notable fictional musicians. Susann Cokal called it "a wonderfully funny, wistful, hopeful book about second chances and reasons to live."
--Marshal Zeringue
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