- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: Razorbill; 1 edition (July 10 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1595141162
- ISBN-13: 978-1595141163
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14.5 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 408 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,840,583 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
Fans of Sarah Dessen's Just Listen will fall in love with this gorgeously written story of one girl's search for her family and herself.
Sixteen-year-old Meg Shanley has to start life over again in Los Angeles because her thirtyyear- old sister Lucie can't get it together. Lucie is always chasing a new man, quitting her job, and packing up their lives. Meg wishes she didn't have to count on Lucie, but she's the only family Meg has ever known.
Then a man arrives on their doorstep and reveals a shocking truth: Back in New York Meg has an uncle, a grandmother, and a father who might not even know she exists. Meg sees an opportunity to have the family she's always dreamed about. She summons all her will, defies Lucie, and travels to New York.
But happiness, she discovers, doesn't lie in a new family. Instead it rests in the true source of her inner strength; in a secret that has been buried deep inside her heart. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
About the Author
C. Leigh Purtill was born in Frankfurt, Germany and grew up in various towns on the east coast of the United States. She attended college at Mount Holyoke, where she received a BA in Anthropology with a minor in Dance, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
She received a Master's degree in Film Production from Boston University, and moved to LA where she now works as a standards editor for such shows as The Gilmore Girls and 7th Heaven. (Yes, this means she gets to watch television for a living.)
One evening, Leigh was stuck in LA traffic, right in front of a billboard for Friends. That's when she was inspired to write her first novel, LOVE, MEG. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
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Courtesy of Teens Read Too,
By TeensReadToo "Eat. Drink. Read. Be Merrier." (All Over the US & Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Love Meg (Hardcover)
Teenager Meg Shanley and her thrity-year-old sister, Lucie, are moving from town to town, looking for a better life. Their parents are gone and Lucie has taken over the role as mother to Meg, although she has not done a very good job of it. Lucie tends to think more along the lines of what's best for herself instead of what's best for Meg. Meg must travel with Lucie because she has no other family to go to.When Lucie abandons her motherly role, Meg finds a new "mother," Jennifer Aniston. Meg writes all of her worries and woes in a letter - and Jennifer Aniston actually replies! The replies are motherly, filled with caring and solutions to her problems. Jen is more of a mother to Meg than Lucie is of a sister. One day, a strange man arrives at Meg and Lucie's Los Angeles house bringing a horrifying truth: Lucie is not exactly who she has been pretending to be. The man, Lonnie, explains that Meg has a grandmother and even a father back in New York. No one knows anything about Meg's father, though, except that he doesn't even know that Meg exists. With Lucie's words of "If you go, don't come back" imprinted on her mind, Meg hops on a plane to New York to find a family she never knew existed - and what she finds is much more than she expected... If I could give LOVE, MEG a higher rating I would! This book totally captivated me and made me look forward to continuing my reading. LOVE, MEG is a book I will lend and recommend to other readers proudly. I cannot explain how amazing I thought this book was. Reviewed by: Jeremey
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Courtesy of Teens Read Too,
By TeensReadToo "Eat. Drink. Read. Be Merrier." - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Love Meg (Hardcover)
Teenager Meg Shanley and her thrity-year-old sister, Lucie, are moving from town to town, looking for a better life. Their parents are gone and Lucie has taken over the role as mother to Meg, although she has not done a very good job of it. Lucie tends to think more along the lines of what's best for herself instead of what's best for Meg. Meg must travel with Lucie because she has no other family to go to.When Lucie abandons her motherly role, Meg finds a new "mother," Jennifer Aniston. Meg writes all of her worries and woes in a letter - and Jennifer Aniston actually replies! The replies are motherly, filled with caring and solutions to her problems. Jen is more of a mother to Meg than Lucie is of a sister. One day, a strange man arrives at Meg and Lucie's Los Angeles house bringing a horrifying truth: Lucie is not exactly who she has been pretending to be. The man, Lonnie, explains that Meg has a grandmother and even a father back in New York. No one knows anything about Meg's father, though, except that he doesn't even know that Meg exists. With Lucie's words of "If you go, don't come back" imprinted on her mind, Meg hops on a plane to New York to find a family she never knew existed - and what she finds is much more than she expected... If I could give LOVE, MEG a higher rating I would! This book totally captivated me and made me look forward to continuing my reading. LOVE, MEG is a book I will lend and recommend to other readers proudly. I cannot explain how amazing I thought this book was. Reviewed by: Jeremey 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Wonderful,
By Gen Max - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Love Meg (Hardcover)
A wonderful heartfelt story. I'm 40 years old and yet I was pulled right in to this world through the straighforward yet poetic text. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and look forward Leigh Purtill's next work which I hope is published soon.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Very real characters with great emotion,
By Y. Pak "Kiddult extraordinaire" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Love Meg (Hardcover)
This book was totally heartfelt with wonderful storytelling that it was hard to break away. The characters were so great and had real depth to all of them even the most seemingly minor little characters. There were some moments when you want to just yell at some characters and other moments when you wish you could just give Meg a big hug and comfort her. She is truly a very real teenager filled with the typical social anxieties that teens go through but always optimistic that everything will turn out with the way they should. In the end, it wasn't about everything having a happy ending with this book, it's all about going through Meg's journey through some of the hardest secrets and truths and experiences that any person, teen or adult could ever go through... with a little help from Jen! Wonderful wonderful!!
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