HELLO BEAUTIFUL PB

"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 ------------------------------------ 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? ------------------------------------ ‘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"