Francesca Segal

Francesca Segal is a British-American novelist and journalist whose fiction explores family, identity, and the tensions between tradition and modernity. She is the daughter of Erich Segal (author of Love Story) and has written for numerous publications including the Guardian and the Observer. The Awkward Age follows a blended family thrown into crisis when the two teenagers — his son, her daughter — begin a relationship. The novel is a sharp, compassionate exploration of modern family life, adolescent desire, and the impossibility of controlling your children's choices. Her debut novel The Innocents won the Costa First Novel Award. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers sharply observed literary fiction about the messy realities of modern family life — novels written with compassion and unflinching honesty.