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  • Published: 13 March 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241999448
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download

Hello Beautiful





From New York Times bestselling author Ann Napolitano comes a rich, life-affirming, and heartbreaking novel about sisterhood, family, love, and growing up

Best friends and sisters, the four Padvano girls are thought of as inseparable by everyone in their close-knit Chicago neighbourhood. Julia, the eldest, is a planner. Sylvie, the dreamer, is happiest with her nose in a book and imagines a life for herself other than the expected path of wife and mother. Cecelia and Emmeline, the twins, are the artist and the caregiver. From childhood, the four sisters complete each other. But when Julia falls in love with William Walters, their lives change. As William falls into darkness, it is Sylvie, not Julie, who steps in to help.

Spanning decades and generations, HELLO BEAUTIFUL captures what it means to be a family -- the joy and tragedy, the deep trust and devastating betrayals. Split apart by stubbornness and heartbreak, the Padavano family scatters across the country. Will the love and loyalty that once rooted them be strong enough to draw them back together?

  • Published: 13 March 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241999448
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download

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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

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