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“Wonderful! Anyone who has ever loved and lost a dog will find wisdom and comfort in this sweet, smart story.”
—Allie Larkin, author of Stay
ALL THE SUMMER GIRLS
In Philadelphia, good girl Kate is dumped by her fiancé the day she learns she is pregnant with his child. In New York City, beautiful stay-at-home mom Vanessa finds herself obsessively searching the Internet for news of an old flame. And in San Francisco, Dani, an aspiring writer who can’t seem to put down a book—or a cocktail—long enough to open her laptop, has just been fired . . . again.
In an effort to regroup, Kate, Vanessa, and Dani retreat to the New Jersey beach town where they once spent their summers. Emboldened by the seductive cadences of the shore, the women begin to realize just how much their lives, and friendships, have been shaped by the choices they made one fateful night on the beach eight years earlier—and the secrets that now threaten to surface.
“All the Summer Girls is an honest and engaging look at the complicated and powerful bonds of female friendship. Donohue takes us on a weekend reunion full of secrets, resentment, and regret—in other words, once you start this book, you won’t be able to put it down!”
—Jennifer Close, bestselling author of Girls in White Dresses
HOW TO EAT A CUPCAKE
Free-spirited Annie Quintana and sophisticated Julia St. Clair come from two different worlds. Yet, as the daughter of the St. Clairs’ housekeeper, Annie grew up in Julia’s San Francisco mansion and they forged a bond that only two little girls oblivious to class differences could—until a life-altering betrayal destroyed their friendship.
A decade later, Annie bakes to fill the void left in her heart by her mother’s death, and a painful secret jeopardizes Julia’s engagement to the man she loves. A chance reunion prompts the unlikely duo to open a cupcakery, but when a mysterious saboteur opens up old wounds, they must finally face the truth about their past or risk losing everything.
“A sparkling, witty story about an unlikely, yet redemptive, friendship. . . . Grab one of these for your best friend and read it together—preferably with a plate of Meyer Lemon cupcakes nearby.”
—Katie Crouch, bestselling author of Girls in Trucks and Men and Dogs
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Praise for Meg Donohue
“Even if my daughter hadn’t recently rescued a dog, our first, I would have fallen in love with Meg Donohue’s Dog Crazy. On these pages you will find love, healing, forgiveness, and pure unbridled joy of the human and canine kind.”
—Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author of The Shoemaker’s Wife
“Wonderful! Anyone who has ever loved and lost a dog will find wisdom and comfort in this sweet, smart story.”
—Allie Larkin, author of Stay
“Donohue has written a delightful tale with heart-wrenching emotions (both high and low), entertaining high jinks and a well-deserved happy ending for the many vivid characters you’ll grow to love. Add to that Donohue’s zippy prose, and you’ve got an entertaining, can’t-put-down page-turner you’ll want to share.”
—RT Book Reviews (top pick)
“Deliciously engaging. Donohue writes with charm and grace. What could be better than friendship and cupcakes?”
—Rebecca Rasmussen, author of The Bird Sisters
“Beautifully written and quietly wise, Meg Donohue’s How to Eat a Cupcake is an achingly honest portrayal of the many layers of friendship—a story so vividly told, you can (almost) taste the buttercream.”
—Sarah Jio, author of The Violets of March and The Bungalow
“How to Eat a Cupcake is a sparkling, witty story about an unlikely, yet redemptive, friendship. Donohue’s voice is lovely, intelligent, and alluring. Grab one of these for your best friend and read it together—preferably with a plate of Meyer lemon cupcakes nearby.”
—Katie Crouch, bestselling author of Girls in Trucks and Men and Dogs
“A heartwarming and unpredictable tale of friendship, family, and frosting.”
—Zoe Fishman, author of Balancing Acts
“An irresistible blend of sweet and tart, this book is truly a treat to be savored.”
—Beth Kendrick, author of The Bake-Off and Second Time Around
“All the Summer Girls is a beautifully wrought story about the tender yet resilient bonds of friendship and the damage of kept secrets. Meg Donohue writes with keen insight, prodding readers to re-examine their own past choices, while gracefully examining themes of family, friendship, and forgiveness.”
—Karen White, New York Times bestselling author
“Beach Book Extraordinaire! All the Summer Girls delivered me back to my college summers and the sweet spot between indulging youthful desires and becoming an adult. Donohue’s three protagonists are irresistibly sympathetic as they try to unbury their true selves from the ruinous secrets of their shared past.”
—Elin Hilderbrand
“All the Summer Girls is an honest and engaging look at the complicated and powerful bonds of female friendship. Donohue takes us on a weekend reunion full of secrets, resentment, and regret—in other words, once you start this book, you won’t be able to put it down!”
—Jennifer Close, bestselling author of Girls in White Dresses
“A fast-paced novel about the enduring friendship of three young women who spent their summers in Avalon on the Jersey shore before dispersing across the country. . . . A good beach read.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“All the Summer Girls celebrates the healing power of friendship for three very different young women with a shared past and different roles in the same guilty secret. Meg Donohue paints a compassionate portrait of what it means to be adrift—in love, and in one’s own sense of self—with engaging heroines both flawed and utterly real.”
—Nichole Bernier, author of The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D.
“Meg Donohue’s All the Summer Girls is an intimate, heartfelt, beautiful exploration of friendship, family, and the ties that bind and the secrets that destroy us. Read it first, pass it to your girlfriend later. She’ll be grateful.”
—New York Times bestselling author Allison Winn Scotch
“Donohue captures the beauty and frustration of reconnecting with old friends—they know you so well, and they don’t know you at all. Perfect for a staycation for readers who like the beachy drama of Elin Hilderbrand and Susan Wiggs.”
—Booklist
Also by Meg Donohue
Dog Crazy
All the Summer Girls
How to Eat a Cupcake
Credits
Cover design by Mumtaz Mustafa
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Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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EVERY WILD HEART. Copyright © 2017 by Meg Donohue Preuss, trustee of the Preuss Family Trust. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
FIRST EDITION
EPub Edition © March 2017 ISBN 9780062429841
ISBN 978-0-06-242983-4
ISBN 978-0-06-265958-3 (library hardcover edition)
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