Hello, little girl

Best book of the year according to The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Time, Vogue, Glamour, Harper's Bazaar, New York Post and others. William Waters grew up in a house marked by tragedy, raised by parents who could barely look at him, let alone love him. When he meets the vivacious and ambitious Julia Padavanova at college, his whole world is brightened. With Julia, her family also enters his life, for the four Padavan sisters are inseparable - the romantic Sylvie, the happiest with her nose buried in a book, the free-spirited artist Cecelia, and her twin sister Emeline, who patiently and willingly cares for them all. In a Padavan household filled with loving chaos, William finds peace again. However, years of repressed shadows of William's inner self come to the surface. The result is a fatal family rift that marks the lives of three generations. Will the cohesiveness that once bound the sisters together be strong enough to bring them back together in the moments that matter most? Hello, Little Girl is an homage to Louisa May Alcott's timeless classic Little Women. It delivers a deeply moving portrait of what is possible when we choose to love someone not because of who they are, but in spite of it.