Francesca Segal

Francesca Segal (born 1980) is a British author and journalist. She is best known for her debut novel, The Innocents, which won several book awards.

Life and career

She was raised in a Jewish community in northwest London where she still lives today. She is the daughter of American author, Erich Segal.

Segal studied at St Hugh's College, Oxford before becoming an author and journalist. Her writing has been published in many places including The Guardian, American Vogue, British Vogue, The Observer, and the Financial Times.

Her first novel, The Innocents was published in 2012 and is based in a Jewish community, similar to the one in which she grew up in.

Segal's second novel, The Awkward Age was published in May 2017. Her third book, Mother Ship, is a memoir released in June 2019. It follows Segal in the aftermath of the premature birth of her twin daughters and their time spent in hospital.

Awards

+ Awards and Nominations Year Work Award Category Result Ref 2012 The Innocents Costa Book Award First Novel National Jewish Book Award — 2013Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction— Harold U. Ribalow Prize — Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature —

Biblio

Novels

The Innocents (2012) The Awkward Age (2017) Welcome to Glorious Tuga (2024) Island Calling (2025)

Memoir

Mother Ship (2019)