The Innocents

Delightful… Segal’s writing is wise, witty and observant. – Kate Saunders * 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 – Elizabeth Buchan * 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 – Michael Arditti * Daily Mail *
Compelling… Segal writes with an understated elegance – Lucy Scholes * Observer *
Humourous and touching – Emam Hagestadt * Independent *
The central story transcends time, reflecting the omnipresence of love and its conflicting web of duty, confusion, temptation and lust. – Camilla Ter Haar * 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 *

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.

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