Welcome to Glorious Tuga

<p><b>'Imagine a modern-day Jane Austen washed up on a fictional island ... Warm clever thoughtful funny moving and brilliantly written' ELIZABETH DAY</b><br><br><b><i>Sunshine secrets and a gold coin tortoise in need of a pedicure: welcome to glorious Tuga!</i></b><br><br>London vet Charlotte Walker has taken up a fellowship on the tiny remote island of Tuga de Oro to study the endangered tortoises in the jungle interior. She can claim the best of reasons for this year in paradise - what better motivation than to save a species? - but the reality is more complex. For Charlotte has a secret that connects her to the island and has finally determined to solve the mystery that has dominated her life.<br><br>But she will have little time for any of her declared or covert investigations. Inconveniently attracted to the new island doctor Dan Zekri Charlotte immediately finds herself the subject of local speculation and gossip. And not only do Tuga's tortoises need attention but so do the island's dogs and donkeys not to mention the islanders themselves determined to win Charlotte over with endless deliveries of cake until she relents and becomes vet to all their animals.<br><br><b>A complete and vivid world to escape to <i>Welcome to Glorious Tuga</i> celebrates a fictional island and the warm-hearted community who live there. Enchanting uplifting and very funny <i>Welcome to Glorious Tuga</i> is a captivating novel about love belonging and about what it really means to come home.<br><br>'A gorgeous book ... brilliantly and thoroughly imagined. I didn't want to go home' NICK HORNBY</b></p> 'If you can imagine <b>a modern-day Jane Austen washed up on a fictional island</b> ... you would get close to <b>the wonder of Francesca Segal's new novel.</b> But you wouldn't capture it completely because Segal has a <b>style and wit</b> all of her own. <b>WELCOME TO GLORIOUS TUGA is warm clever thoughtful funny moving and brilliantly written. I relished every page and can't wait to press it into everyone's hands</b>' 'WELCOME TO GLORIOUS TUGA is<b> a gorgeous book</b> ... Everything right down to the fruit has been brilliantly and thoroughly imagined.<b> I didn't want to go home</b>' <b>Francesca Segal</b> is an award-winning writer and journalist. She is the author of two critically acclaimed novels <i>The Innocents</i> (2012) and <i>The Awkward Age</i> (2017) and a memoir of NICU motherhood <i>Mother Ship</i> (2019). Her writing has won the 2012 Costa First Novel Award the National Jewish Book Award and been longlisted for the Women's Prize.