Lidija Hilje is a Croatian novelist and certified book coach. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times and other outlets. After ten years of trying cases before Croatian courts, she obtained a book coaching certification and has been working professionally with writers ever since. She lives in Zadar, Croatia, with her husband and two daughters.
Slanting Towards the Sea is her first novel.
At Electric Lit Hilje tagged seven of her "favorite love triangles in literary fiction." One title on the list:
Hello Beautiful by Ann NapolitanoRead about the other entries on the list at Electric Lit.
William Waters is a college student with a tragic past who meets and falls in love with Julia Padavano, a decisive and ambitious fellow student atNorthwestern University. But Julia doesn’t come alone; she is one of four sisters, and a member of a tight-knit Italian family. While at first it seems like Julia’s drive and clear vision for the future are exactly what rudderless William needs, when tragedy strikes, it isn’t Julia who can understand him, but her younger—and closest—sister, Sylvie. The emergent love between William and Sylvie will spur an epic betrayal and cause a rift between sisters that will ripple through generations. Hello Beautiful explores the strength of three different kinds of bonds—sibling, romantic, and motherly––asking which is the strongest, and what happens when they’re stacked against one another.
Hello Beautiful is among Morgan Dick's seven books about long-lost sisters.
--Marshal Zeringue
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