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Meg Donohue

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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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Average rating: 3.48 · 24,002 ratings · 2,887 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	All the Summer Girls 3.31 avg rating — 9,561 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 — 7,876 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 — 2,591 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 — 2,141 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 — 1,798 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: A Novel 4.49 avg rating — 35 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 Incredible Kindness of Paper

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I am so excited to release The Memory Gardener, my sixth novel, into the world! This cozy, feel-good story was born out of the contentment that I feel while caring for my own small garden in San Francisco, and the way that the scents of the flowers t ...more
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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

tags: dogs, dogs-and-humans, rescue-dogs, rescues

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