The second novel from Costa prize-winning author Francesca Segal - a clever, sharp, funny and moving story about family, starting over and how much we let our children get away with
Francesca Segal is an award-winning writer and journalist. Her first novel, The Innocents, won the 2012 Costa First Novel Award, the 2012 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction, the 2013 Sami Rohr Prize, and a Betty Trask Award. It was also longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. She lives in London with her family.
It’s beautifully written
*Good Housekeeping*
A very smart, soulful, compelling, elegantly written domestic
novel
*Observer*
Francesca Segal is incisive on modern lives, penetrating and
thoughtful - and yet always joyfully entertaining and stylishly
readable.
*Naomi Alderman*
Segal’s wit and intelligence are entirely her own and the moral
dilemmas of her characters could not be more modern… Segal has a
superb eye for the lies that the middle-aged lovers tell
themselves, and they are jolted back to reality when it all goes
spectacularly wrong. It is nearly a tragedy, but not quite; she’s
just too funny
*The Times*
Elegant… an entertaining look at the messy business of trying to be
in a family in emotionally trying circumstances… Irresistible
*Mail on Sunday*
A story that is equal parts hilarious and devastating
*Vogue*
Francesa Segal is precise and funny, and The Awkward Age is
brimming with keen observations of the highest order--the clever,
the sore, and the sublime.
*Emma Straub*
Segal… is a sharp observer of the tribulations of teenage love and
modern relationships. Particularly strong on how blind parents are
towards their ghastly offspring’s flaws, this book is a lively,
quick-witted performance
*The Sunday Times*
In Francesca Segal’s magnificent new novel The Awkward Age,
romantic and parental love go head to head, stress-testing
loyalties and bonds with heartbreaking consequences… Genius… An
impressively nuanced and convincing portrait of maternal love… a
painful delight to read, invoking a perfectly balanced oscillation
between compassion and frustration
*Independent*
Themes of non-nuclear family life, the everyday fractures and
renovations inherent to relationships of any kind, amid moments of
pitch-perfect comic tension… Segal navigates these re-drawn battle
lines with skill and sensitivity… There is no precise time, we are
reminded, at which life becomes less tangled, at which
personalities are formed as in aspic: we can see that all ages are
awkward, but some are more awkward than others
*Financial Times*
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