From the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward comes a beautifully tender
heartbreaking and moving story of four sisters over three decades Meet the Padvano girls. Best
friends and sisters they are thought of as inseparable by everyone in their close-knit Chicago
neighbourhood. Julia the eldest is the rocket of the family - she always has a destination in
mind and clear plans for how to get there. 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 expecting that their family will always be intact. When Julia falls in
love with William Walters a history student and college sports star she's delighted by the
way her plans for adulthood are coming together. A husband a house a family. But when
darkness from William's past begins to block the light of his future it is Sylvie not Julia
who steps in to help. Suddenly things shift. Dynamics and relationships priorities and
secrets - everything that was once a given no longer is. Rich and vivid heartbreaking and
heart-mending Hello Beautiful captures the joy tragedy trust and betrayal to ask: what does
it mean to be a family? And once shattered can it be pieced back together? ***Praise for Dear
Edward by Ann Napolitano*** 'Wonderful . . . a beautifully written coming-of-age story' Nina
Stibbe 'Powerful' New York Times 'Ann Napolitano's writing is astonishing. I'm in awe' Marian
Keyes 'Moving and emotional' Anne Tyler 'That rare book that breaks your heart and stitches it
back together' Jodi Picoult 'Stunning life-affirming' Vogue 'Made me think nod in recognition
care about its characters and cry and you can't ask more of a novel than that' Emma Donoghue
