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  • Published: 14 July 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241998489
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400

Hello Beautiful




Four sisters. Two sides of a fault line. Can love make a broken family whole?

Best friends and sisters, the four Padavano girls bring loving chaos to their close-knit Italian American neighbourhood. William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him. So, when he meets the spirited and ambitious Julia Padavano, it's as if the world has lit up around him.

With Julia comes her family: Sylvie, the family's dreamer, is happiest with her nose in a book; Cecelia is a free-spirited artist; and Emeline patiently takes care of them all. But when darkness from William's past begins to block the light of his future, it is Sylvie, not Julia, who becomes his closest confidante. The result is a catastrophic rift that leaves the family inhabiting two sides of a fault line.

Can they find their way back to each other? Can love make a broken family whole?

  • Published: 14 July 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241998489
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400

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Praise for Hello Beautiful

This is a story about family, and sisters... and how love can be redeemed

Therese Anne Fowler, author of It All Comes Down to This

As addictive as last year's The Paper Palace

Grazia

I read this while traveling from London to Manchester and very nearly missed my stop on the train. It was that good

Abi Daré, Elle

A novel of rare yet classic beauty

i Paper

Napolitano’s luminously beautiful novel explores the space between truth and self-delusion to incredibly moving effect

Observer

This is a big-hearted, beautiful and wise family saga. Napolitano creates real, flawed characters - and makes you see the world anew. So wonderful as to be unmissable

Good Housekeeping, Book of the Month

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