A very modern love story which tells the age-old tale of love, temptation, confusion, commitment, and coming to terms with the choices we've made
Francesca Segal was born in London in 1980. Brought up in the UK and America, she studied at St Hugh's College, Oxford, before becoming a journalist and critic. Her work has appeared in Granta, the Guardian, the Financial Times and both American and British Vogue, amongst others. For three years she wrote the Debut Fiction Column in the Observer and she has been a Features Writer at Tatler. The Innocents is her first novel.
Delightful… Segal’s writing is wise, witty and observant.
*The Times*
Wonderful...witty…an astonishingly accomplished debut which will
draw comparisons between Segal and Zadie Smith and Monica Ali.
*Stylist*
An impressive debut...the struggle to achieve true adulthood, the
loss of innocence and the consequences of adapting to a culture
that levies certain expectations on its members, are all cleverly
worked into a poised text
*Sunday Times*
A subtle, witty and acutely observed study of a narrow but very
recognisable world.
*The Observer*
Witty and touching... An assured and audacious debut
*Daily Mail*
Compelling... Segal writes with an understated elegance
*Observer*
Humourous and touching
*Independent*
The central story transcends time, reflecting the omnipresence of
love and its conflicting web of duty, confusion, temptation and
lust.
*The Lady*
Stylish, witty, wonderfully moreish
*A.D. Miller*
The Innocents is an exuberant, sensitive, witty novel, elegantly
written, partly a study of universal dramas of love, marriage and
fear, partly a very modern, sassy London story, partly a Jewish
novel. I found it irresistible
*Simon Sebag Montefiore*
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