Hello Beautiful

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?

Review

Napolitano's prose is so lovely, so keenly perceptive, that it held me captive until I finished -- Mary Beth Keane, New York Times bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes

Ann Napolitano's writing is astonishing -- Marian Keyes, Sunday Times bestselling author of Again, Rachel

A profoundly moving and propulsive novel of the deepest connections of family and love, trauma and healing. A book to treasure and share with friends and loved ones -- Angie Kim, bestselling author of Miracle Creek

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

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

Radiant and brilliantly crafted ― New York Times

Beautiful, perceptive, wistful. I loved it -- Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace

Ann Napolitano's writing is astonishing -- Marian Keyes, author of Grown Ups

As addictive as last year's The Paper Palace ― Grazia

About the Author

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.