Meet Me in Italy

Brenda Novak

Paperback | 400 pages | Publication Date: April 7, 2026

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Fans of Rebecca Serle’s One Italian Summer and Elin Hilderbrand’s The Five Star Weekend will love this tender, escapist story about a woman who travels to the stunning Amalfi Coast to meet the sister she never knew she had.

A trip to Italy is the last thing Charlotte Williams-Jackson ever thought she’d be taking right now. After all, she’s finding her way through a brutal—and very public—divorce and somehow trying to write the follow-up to her blockbuster debut just in time to make her deadline. Writing a book with no idea in hand in three months is totally possible, right? But she never imagined that a letter would arrive that would blow what was left of her life to smithereens…

For not only is Charlotte adopted—something her beloved parents have never told her before—but her birth mother, Sabrina, has just died. Sabrina lived on the Amalfi Coast in the small town of Praiano with her twelve-year old daughter Lilly who is now completely and utterly without any family. Lilly needs a guardian and Charlotte can’t bear to turn her back on family. So she’ll travel to Italy, meet her sister, and decided what on earth to do next. After all, you can write a book from anywhere, right?

With a charming AirBNB booked and her childhood best friend, Sloane, and Sloane’s big brother along for a month-long vacation, Charlotte begins an adventure that will change everything she thought she knew about family, friendship, love, loss, and loyalty…and most of all, herself.