Acclaimed author of Dear Edward pens a powerfully affecting family saga asking: can love make a broken person whole?
William Waters knows silenced tragedy, his withdrawn parents barely able to look at him, much less love him. When he meets the spirited, ambitious Julia Padavano his freshman year, it’s as if the world lights up. Julia brings her inseparable sisters too – dreamer Sylvie, lost in books; free-spirited artist Cecelia; caring Emeline anchoring them all.
With the Padavanos, William finds new contentment, every moment steeped in loving chaos. But William’s past surfaces, threatening Julia’s carefully planned future and the sisters’ unbreakable bond. The resulting catastrophe tears the family apart for generations. Will long-rooted loyalty prove strong enough to reunite them when it matters most?
An exquisite homage to Alcott’s Little Women, Hello Beautiful is a profoundly moving portrait of the power of loving someone not in spite of who they are, but because of it.
