Francesca Segal is an award-win­ning British-Amer­i­can nov­el­ist, author of The Inno­cents, which won the Cos­ta First Nov­el Award, the Sami Rohr Prize, the Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award for Fic­tion, and was long-list­ed for the Women’s Prize, amongst oth­ers; also The Awk­ward Age, and a crit­i­cal­ly-acclaimed mem­oir of pre­ma­tu­ri­ty, Moth­er Ship.