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Meg Donohue is the USA Today bestselling author of The Memory Gardener (11/25/25), You, Me, and the Sea, Every Wild Heart, Dog Crazy, All the Summer Girls, and How to Eat a Cupcake. Her novels have been translated into Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish. Born and raised in Philadelphia, she lives San Francisco with her husband, three daughters, and dog. She is currently working on her next novel.

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	All the Summer Girls 3.31 avg rating — 9,574 ratings — published 2013 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Eat a Cupcake 3.52 avg rating — 7,883 ratings — published 2012 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dog Crazy 3.85 avg rating — 2,609 ratings — published 2015 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Every Wild Heart 3.38 avg rating — 2,165 ratings — published 2017 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You, Me, and the Sea 3.74 avg rating — 1,809 ratings — published 2019 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Memory Gardener 4.26 avg rating — 216 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Memory Gardener is here!

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I am thrilled to announce that The Memory Gardener is now available for purchase! Just in time for the holidays, this cozy, heartwarming tale is the perfect book to read by the fire with a cup of tea steaming beside you — or to gift to the gardener or book lover in your life!

I have so much to say about all that inspired me to write The Memory Gardener—the healing power of gardens, the Read more of this blog post »

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Published on November 25, 2025 10:45 • Tags: adult-fiction, contemporary, contemporary-fiction, fantasy, fiction, friendship-fiction, literary-fiction, magical-realism, mothers-and-daughters, women-s-fiction

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“Love is love," I told her, as I tell all of my patients who are ashamed to find themselves shattered by the death of a dog. "Loss is loss.”
― Meg Donohue, Dog Crazy

tags: bereavement, dogs, dogs-and-humans, grief-and-loss, grief-support, pet-bereavement, pet-loss

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“I'm convinced that petting a puppy is good luck.”
― Meg Donohue, Dog Crazy

tags: dog-humor, dog-rescue, dogs, dogs-and-humans, puppies

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“Her fragility makes her uncomfortable, but it has a familiarity, too, like the biting cold of winter that you only half forget during other seasons.”
― Meg Donohue, All the Summer Girls

tags: fragile, girls, seasons, summer, winter

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“I have a theory that you get the right dog, the dog you need, for a particular stage in your life.”
― Meg Donohue, Dog Crazy

tags: dogs, dogs-and-humans

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“I've always had this feeling," Henry says, "that all dogs are really therapy dogs.”
― Meg Donohue, Dog Crazy

tags: dogs, dogs-and-humans, therapy, therapy-dogs

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“This house is just a thing .... On your love list, always put the beating hearts at the top.”
― Meg Donohue, Dog Crazy

tags: dogs, dogs-and-humans, life-lessons, life-philosophy

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“Love is love," I told her, as I tell all of my patients who are ashamed to find themselves shattered by the death of a dog. "Loss is loss.”
― Meg Donohue, Dog Crazy

tags: bereavement, dogs, dogs-and-humans, grief-and-loss, grief-support, pet-bereavement, pet-loss

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“I liked the idea of adopting a dog that was beyond the puppy stage, a dog with an unknown span of life under his belt. It seemed only fair; he didn't know what he was getting into with me either.”
― Meg Donohue, Dog Crazy