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Marian Keyes, Sunday Times bestselling author of Again, Rachel

This powerfully affecting novel illustrates [that] love and luck don't always intertwine

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

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

A novel of rare yet classic beauty…

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

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

Best friends and sisters, the four Padavano girls are seen as inseparable by everyone in their close-knit Italian-American neighbourhood, bringing loving chaos with them wherever they go. 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. 
 
HELLO BEAUTIFUL is a heart-breaking and heart-mending novel that asks: can love make a broken family whole?

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READ • MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! 
 
‘BEAUTIFUL, PERCEPTIVE, WISTFUL’ Miranda Cowley Heller 
‘ANN NAPOLITANO’S WRITING IS ASTONISHING’ Marian Keyes 
‘RADIANT AND BRILLIANTLY CRAFTED’ New York Times 
 
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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? 
 
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‘A luminously beautiful novel’ Observer 
‘I very nearly missed my stop on the train. It was that good’ Elle 
‘A novel of rare yet classic beauty’ i Paper 
‘A moving, tender family epic’ Pandora Sykes

Ann Napolitano is the author of the novels A Good Hard Look and Within Arm's Reach. She is also the Assistant Editor of One Story literary magazine. She received an MFA from New York University; she has taught fiction writing for Brooklyn College's MFA program, New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies and for Gotham Writers' Workshop. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.

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