Tag: sisters

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Hello Beautiful

Ann Napolitano · 2023

Four sisters in Chicago love, lose, and find each other again across thirty years.

2,144-word summary · 10 min read

Into the Water

Paula Hawkins · 2017

A drowning pool, eleven narrators, and sisters divided in Hawkins's murky second thriller.

2,598-word summary · 12 min read

The Other Boleyn Girl

Philippa Gregory · 2001

Mary Boleyn tells how she and sister Anne loved Henry VIII and paid for ambition at the Tudor court.

2,396-word summary · 11 min read

Pretty Girls

Karin Slaughter · 2015

Estranged sisters Claire and Lydia reunite after a murder exposes snuff films, their sister Julia's fate, and a killer near Lydia's daughter.

2,498-word summary · 11 min read

The Vanishing Half

Brit Bennett · 2020

Twin sisters split as one lives Black and one passes as white.

1,971-word summary · 9 min read

Caraval

Stephanie Garber · 2017

Sisters Scarlett and Tella enter the game Caraval to escape a cruel father, where truth and show blur.

2,033-word summary · 9 min read

Before We Were Yours

Lisa Wingate · 2017

Avery uncovers her family's link to stolen orphans while Rill fights to keep her siblings together in 1939.

2,020-word summary · 9 min read

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen · 1811

Elinor hides her heart and Marianne shows all of hers after the Dashwoods lose Norland, with Edward, Willoughby and Brandon circling.

1,936-word summary · 9 min read

Book Lovers

Emily Henry · 2022

Sharp literary agent Nora Stephens gets dragged to small-town Sunshine Falls with her sister and keeps colliding with brooding editor Charlie Lastra.

1,952-word summary · 9 min read

The Nightingale

Kristin Hannah · 2015

Nightingale retold: Vianne and Isabelle in occupied France, hide children, run routes, trials.

1,950-word summary · 9 min read

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott · 1868

Alcott's Little Women retold: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March through the Civil War years and beyond.

2,487-word summary · 11 min read