Hello Beautiful
Ann Napolitano
Four Padavano sisters in Chicago, bound by love and loss, are split by one choice and live with the fallout for decades
Both: Heartbreaking · Sisters & siblings · Grief & loss
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Blue Sisters
Coco Mellors
Three estranged sisters reunite in New York a year after losing the fourth, to stop the sale of their childhood home
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- Heartbreaking
- Hopeful
- Sisters & siblings
- Grief & loss
- Big city
- Steady
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When their father vanishes in the 1976 London heatwave, three grown siblings come home and old wounds between two sisters break open
Both: Sisters & siblings
The Most Fun We Ever Had
Claire Lombardo
Four Chicago sisters bicker, compete and confide across decades, while a long-buried family secret quietly resurfaces
Both: Heartbreaking · Sisters & siblings
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Eleanor Brown
Three sisters named after Shakespeare heroines come home to their ill mother, each hiding a mess and slipping back into old rivalries
Both: Sisters & siblings
All My Puny Sorrows
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Yoli fights to keep her pianist sister Elf alive, their darkly funny, loving conversations carrying all the grief between them
Both: Heartbreaking · Sisters & siblings · Grief & loss
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