Hello Beautiful

Ann Napolitano

Four close Chicago sisters, the quiet outsider who marries into them, and the rift that follows

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Maggie O'Farrell

When their father vanishes in the 1976 London heatwave, three estranged Irish siblings come home and long-simmering secrets boil over

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Margaret Atwood

In a haunting story within a story, an old Ontario woman unravels how she and her younger sister came to love the same man

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Tara Conklin

After their father dies, four siblings raise each other through their mother's grief, then scatter into tender, messy lives and loves

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Claire Lombardo

Four Chicago sisters circle their parents' enduring love over forty years, until one sister's secret son turns up and old rivalries flare

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Shirley Hazzard

Two orphaned Australian sisters drift into separate lives and fateful love affairs in postwar England over three quiet decades

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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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Louisa May Alcott

Civil War-era Massachusetts: four March sisters grow up, fall in love and find their paths

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Four sisters, one devastating loss and a love that holds them together. You'll cry, then feel better.

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