Francesca Segal 
Welcome to Glorious Tuga 
THE beach read for summer 2024, from the Costa Prize winner

‘A magical novel, so uplifting, heartwarming, funny … Feels as if it was written specifically to give comfort’ MARIAN KEYES’Warm and addictive . . . escapism at its finest’ i paper’If you’re looking for a perfect holiday read, this is it’ Red’A slice of sunshine in book form’ Good Housekeeping Sail to the tropical paradise where secrets don’t stay hidden for long …Zoologist Charlotte Walker has taken up a fellowship on the tiny, remote island of Tuga de Oro to study the endangered gold coin 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 …A complete and vivid world to escape to, Welcome to Glorious Tuga celebrates a fictional island, and the warm-hearted families who live there. Enchanting, uplifting and very funny, this is a captivating novel about love, belonging, and what it really means to come home.’A gorgeous book … brilliantly and thoroughly imagined. I didn’t want to go home’ NICK HORNBY Sparkling and sophisticated … reminded me of the pleasures to be had in reading’ JESSIE BURTON’Imagine a modern-day Jane Austen washed up on a fictional island … Warm, clever, thoughtful, funny, moving and brilliantly written’ ELIZABETH DAY