Chatto & Windus
Ellie represents everything that Adam has striven to avoid – and everything that is missing from his world. As the long-awaited wedding approaches, Adam is torn between duty and temptation, security and freedom, and must make a choice that will break either one heart, or many.
The daughter of a novelist and an editor, Francesca Segal was born in London in 1980. Brought up between the UK and America, she studied Experimental Psychology at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, before becoming a journalist and writer. Her work has appeared in Granta, the FT, the Guardian and Vogue UK and US, amongst others. She has been a features writer at Tatler, and for three years wrote the Debut Fiction column in the Observer. She lives in North London. The Innocents won the 2012 Costa First Novel Award.
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