Three Sisters by Jojo Moyes: Release Date, Capri Setting and King Lear Inspiration

Reporting checked: October 3, 2026
Byline: Ahaqir

Jojo Moyes is bringing a fractured family together on Capri in Three Sisters, an upcoming novel with roots in Shakespeare’s King Lear. For readers wondering when they can pick it up, the confirmed U.S. release date is February 9, 2027, through Pamela Dorman Books.

The premise raises an intriguing question: what happens when adult sisters return to a father whose influence they have spent years trying to escape? With its literary inspiration and Italian setting, this is a release worth watching for readers drawn to complicated family relationships.

When Does Three Sisters Come Out?

Penguin Random House’s U.S. catalogue lists the hardcover for February 9, 2027. British readers have a slightly different date: Penguin’s U.K. listing gives February 11, 2027.

The difference reflects separate market listings. Readers ordering an imported edition should check which edition their bookseller is offering.

What Is Three Sisters About?

According to the official U.S. synopsis, Cora has been estranged from her father and two sisters for nearly ten years. Her father, celebrated artist Florian Gallo, calls them to his Capri home.

Her older sister, Diana, has built a family and career in America. Younger sister Kiki has become a social media personality and is engaged and pregnant. Their father’s nurse, Sophia, is also present.

An announcement from Florian unsettles the reunion, divides the sisters and leaves Cora questioning whom she can trust. The synopsis also signals that Florian himself will face danger, without revealing the full circumstances.

That leaves an effective question hanging over the setup: will returning to the same household bring these women closer, or revive the habits that separated them?

Why the Capri Setting Matters

The gathering takes place at a white villa overlooking the sea, surrounded by bougainvillea. The publisher presents an attractive destination alongside a troubled family reunion.

As an interpretation of that premise, the contrast offers considerable storytelling potential. A beautiful place does not automatically make a difficult relationship easier. A family can arrive somewhere that looks like a holiday and still bring years of resentment with it.

It will be interesting to see whether the island gives the sisters room to reconsider one another, or makes their reunion feel harder to escape. That remains a question for the finished novel rather than a confirmed plot development.

How King Lear Inspired Jojo Moyes

In PEOPLE’s October 2 cover reveal, Moyes explained that her longstanding interest in King Lear helped inspire the book. She singled out its difficult family relationships and themes of inheritance, love and betrayal. A visit to Capri helped her envision a contemporary setting.

The connection goes beyond the presence of three daughters. In Shakespeare’s play, Lear plans to divide his kingdom and asks his daughters to declare their love. Goneril and Regan flatter him, while Cordelia refuses to match their extravagant claims and is disowned. The Folger Shakespeare Library’s text and synopsis explain how that decision leads to disaster.

The play makes affection and property dangerously intertwined. It asks whether a parent can recognize sincere love when it arrives without the performance he expects.

Those questions offer a useful lens for approaching Moyes’s new novel. However, her stated inspiration does not establish a scene-for-scene adaptation, direct equivalents for each daughter, or an ending that matches Shakespeare’s.

What Makes This Premise Worth Watching?

The most compelling possibility is that the sisters may remember the same father very differently. Family stories often become more interesting when nobody agrees on what happened or what someone owes them now.

For me, the question worth following is how Moyes will handle that tension between a father’s version of his legacy and his daughters’ experience of it. That is an expectation prompted by the premise, rather than a judgment on a book I have read.

Three Sisters is still forthcoming. Its ending and the full extent of its Shakespearean parallels remain to be assessed when the novel becomes available.

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