It's beautifully written --Victoria Hislop, Good Housekeeping A very smart, soulful, compelling, elegantly written domestic novel --Nick Hornby, Observer Francesca Segal is incisive on modern lives, penetrating and thoughtful - and yet always joyfully entertaining and stylishly readable. -- Naomi Alderman Segal's wit and intelligence are entirely her own and the moral dilemmas of her characters could not be more modern . Segal has a superb eye for the lies that the middle-aged lovers tell themselves, and they are jolted back to reality when it all goes spectacularly wrong. It is nearly a tragedy, but not quite; she's just too funny --Kate Saunders, The Times Elegant . an entertaining look at the messy business of trying to be in a family in emotionally trying circumstances. Irresistible --Eithne Farry, Mail on Sunday A story that is equal parts hilarious and devastating -- Vogue Francesa Segal is precise and funny , and The Awkward Age is brimming with keen observations of the highest order --the clever, the sore, and the sublime.-- Emma Straub Segal. is a sharp observer of the tribulations of teenage love and modern relationships.

Particularly strong on how blind parents are towards their ghastly offspring's flaws, this book is a lively, quick-witted performance -- The Sunday Times In Francesca Segal's magnificent new novel The Awkward Age , romantic and parental love go head to head, stress-testing loyalties and bonds with heartbreaking consequences. Genius . An impressively nuanced and convincing portrait of maternal love. a painful delight to read, invoking a perfectly balanced oscillation between compassion and frustration --Lucy Scholes, Independent Themes of non-nuclear family life, the everyday fractures and renovations inherent to relationships of any kind, amid moments of pitch-perfect comic tension . Segal navigates these re-drawn battle lines with skill and sensitivity. There is no precise time, we are reminded, at which life becomes less tangled, at which personalities are formed as in aspic: we can see that all ages are awkward, but some are more awkward than others--Zoë Apostolides, Financial Times.