About the author
Colleen Hoover is an American novelist whose work spans romance and young adult fiction. Her books often place an emotionally intense relationship beside family trauma, abuse, grief, or a choice that cannot be solved by attraction alone.
It Ends with Us frames its romance around domestic abuse and the inheritance of family behavior. Colleen Hoover's novel is most concerned with the moment when sympathy for the past must give way to responsibility for what happens next.
Where to start
Start with It Ends with Us. Lily Bloom's relationship with a gifted surgeon forces her to confront the violence she witnessed at home and the choices her mother once faced.