A big­heart­ed page-turn­er set on a remote island in the South Atlantic Ocean about love, com­mu­ni­ty, and what it means to come home. Pas­sion­ate about con­ser­va­tion and flee­ing an argu­ment with her moth­er, new­ly qual­i­fied Lon­don vet Char­lotte Walk­er has tak­en up a fel­low­ship on the tiny South Atlantic island of Tuga de Oro to study the endan­gered gold coin tor­tois­es in the jun­gle inte­ri­or. She can claim the best of rea­sons for this year in par­adise — What bet­ter moti­va­tion than to save a species? — but the real­i­ty is more com­plex. For Char­lotte has secret­ly come to believe that she has her own con­nec­tion to this remote and eccen­tric com­mu­ni­ty, and she is final­ly deter­mined to solve the mys­tery that has dom­i­nat­ed her life. But not only do Tuga’s tor­tois­es need atten­tion but so too do the island’s dogs, goats, and don­keys — not to men­tion the islanders them­selves, deter­mined to win Char­lotte over with cake until she relents and becomes vet to all their ani­mals.

A com­plete, vivid world unto itself, Wel­come to Glo­ri­ous Tuga is a bewitch­ing com­bi­na­tion of warmth and humor. Immer­sive and uplift­ing, it trans­ports the read­er to an island that time for­got, bring­ing to life a cast of flawed, love­able peo­ple, like a con­tem­po­rary James Her­riot beneath the coconut palms.