Why did I love this book?
When I finished this book, I put it down and ugly cried for about 20 minutes. It is a beautiful portrait of love and loss within a family I came to love, warts and all.
The characters were so nuanced and realistic I felt their emotions right alongside them. Loosely (and deftly) based on Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, Hello Beautiful is a book that will live in my heart for a long, long time.
8 authors picked Hello Beautiful as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward comes a poignant and engrossing family story that asks: Can love make a broken person whole?
“Hello Beautiful is exactly that: beautiful, perceptive, wistful. It’s a story of family and friendship, of how the people we are bound to can also set us free. I loved it.”—Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace
William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him—so when he meets the spirited and ambitious Julia Padavano in his freshman…