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Francesca Segal


UK flag (b.1980)

Francesca was born in London in 1980. Brought up between the UK and America, she studied at Oxford and Harvard universities before becoming a writer. Her work has appeared in Granta, The Guardian, and The Jewish Chronicle, amongst others. She has been a features writer at Tatler, and for three years wrote the Debut Fiction column in The Observer.
 

Awards: Costa (2012)  see all

Genres: General Fiction, Literary Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
June 2025

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Island Calling
(Tuga Trilogy, book 2)
Series
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Novels
   The Innocents (2012)
   The Awkward Age (2017)
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Non fiction show
 
Awards
2012 Costa Book Award for Best First Novel : The Innocents

Award nominations
2013 Betty Trask Prize (nominee) : The Innocents


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