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Meagan Church

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Meagan Church is the author of emotionally-charged, empathy-inducing novels, including The Mad Wife, The Last Carolina Girl, and The Girls We Sent Away, a Southern indie bestseller and North Carolina Reads state-wide book club pick for 2025. After receiving a B.A. in English from Indiana University, Meagan built a career as a freelance writer. She is an adjunct for Drexel University’s MFA in creative writing program, and helps authors tell their own stories through editing, coaching, and workshops. A Midwesterner by birth, she now lives in North Carolina with her high school sweetheart, three children, and a plethora of pets.

Average rating: 3.98 · 26,749 ratings · 4,121 reviews · 3 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Mad Wife

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The Girls We Sent Away

3.94 avg rating — 8,275 ratings — published 2024 — 6 editions
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The Girls We Sent Away by Meagan Church
"It’s the 1960s.

What became of girls who found themselves pregnant and with no support?

We meet Lorraine Delford, an only child, a girl who was going to be valedictorian of her senior class, a girl who wanted to be an astronaut, a girl who did not want" Read more of this review »
The Girls We Sent Away by Meagan Church
"Lorraine is beautiful and brainy. By the looks of it, she has it all. The perfect family, on her way to being valedictorian in her senior year of high school, dating a man in her parents social circle, physically fit as the local life guard.

Her man p" Read more of this review »
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"Meagan’s book takes us to the 1960’s when “good” girls did not get pregnant before marriage. But what happens if you did? And that’s the book title!
Lorraine has her eyes on the stars and dreams of being part of the exciting new space exploration. Bu" Read more of this review »
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“Sometimes family's not who you've been given. It's who you choose.”
Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“Of course, sometimes we forget that dreams and nightmares are two sides of the same coin”
Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“Life is a continual process of letting go, but this I choose to hold on to. This I will never surrender, because I remember. Always and forever, I remember.”
Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

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“Sometimes yuh gotta love even when it don't make sense.”
Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“I knew Daddy has my home, but sometimes I also wanted a porch and stately pillars, a beachfront view, a bedroom with a door and even a staircase if I was dreaming big. And definitely a mama, even if she looked at me like Mrs. Barna did as I confessed to trying to make myself a home, even if she was disappointed in what I'd done.”
Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl
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“That's the trouble with planting live thing to remember the dead; sometimes what you plant doesn't live as long as you'd like either.”
Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“After all it's not until something worse comes along that we can look back and realize we had something good all along. If only we hadn't been so foolish as to miss it at the time.”
Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“Sometimes the strength you need comes in silence.”
Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

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