Island Calling

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Author: Francesca SegalModern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Published on 4 June 2026 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom as part of 'The Tuga Island Trilogy ' series.Paperback | 320 pages197 x 128 x 23 | 224g Head to the blissful tropical island of Tuga in this funny, moving, uplifting summer read'Absolutely blissful... Get both books in the series: I’ll eat my hat if you don’t love them' India Knight, Sunday TimesREADERS LOVE ISLAND CALLING: ‘A dream island escape’ ‘An uplifting, original story with such wonderful characters. Packed with humour…The perfect holiday read’‘Perfect for the summer holidays – I loved it’‘A gorgeous summer read’‘A fabulous return to the wonderful Island of Tuga’What if your mother knows you better than you know yourself?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.PRAISE FOR THE TUGA ISLAND TRILOGY:‘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 Show more