Blue Sisters
Coco Mellors
Raw with grief, three estranged sisters scattered across New York, London and Paris come home to fight for the apartment they shared
Both: Heartbreaking · Sisters & siblings
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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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- Cosy
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- Sisters & siblings
- Coming of age
- Family saga
- Slow & immersive
- Medium read
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Stranded in a 1920s French hotel one hot summer, Cecil and her older sister grow up fast as rivals in a darker, grown-up world of secrets
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From the 1970s on, four Chicago sisters grow up in the shadow of their parents' perfect marriage, bickering and leaning on each other
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Three bookish sisters raised on Shakespeare move back home and slip warmly, stubbornly into their old childhood roles
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