Praise
The Girl with Three Birthdays is a 2025 Silver recipient in the prestigious Sarton/Gilda award competition.
2024 Readers Favorite Five Star Award
What People Are Saying About Don’t Look in the Freezer
“Patti Eddington’s moving memoir about the unsung heroes who love and care for our beloved pets – the vets, their staff and those who love and care for them – will make you laugh, cry and hug your best friend. Beautiful, funny and life affirming.”
– Wade Rouse, USA Today Bestselling Author of That’s What Friends are For
“Threats to drop off hundreds of pigs at 3 a.m., a pistol-packing owner promising to shoot if his itchy pup isn’t helped, a woman demanding her dog be defrosted. Humorous and heartfelt, Patti Eddington regales life as the wife of a small-town vet with pitch-perfect tone that is equal parts Hallmark and second martini.”
– Bridey Thelen-Heidel, author of Bright Eyes: Surviving Our Monsters and Learning to Live without Them – A Memoir
“Brilliant, funny, touching, inspiring. If you love animals like I do, you will cherish this inside view into the life and times of one incredible veterinary family dedicated to loving and caring for our most precious beings. You will definitely gift a copy—or twelve—to your pet’s veterinarian. Then you will hug and thank them.”
– Karen Solt, author of Hiding for My Life: Being Gay in the Navy
“In Don’t Look in the Freezer, Eddington opens the door to the world behind the exam room. With humor and tenderness, she reveals the quiet devotion of vets and the love that flows between people and their pets. A true gem for animal lovers everywhere.”
– Tracey Yokas, author of Bloodlines: A Memoir of Harm and Healing
“Warm, funny, and unexpectedly poignant, Don’t Look in the Freezer reveals the chaos of loving a veterinarian—from farm calls and exotic pets to a heroic goldfish surgery and bath-crashing chinchillas. Eddington blends humor and reflection into a moving portrait of marriage, resilience, and compassion built on a shared purpose.”
– Linda K. Sienkiewicz, author of Love and Other Incurable Ailments
“A remarkable odyssey of a veterinarian and his bride, ”Don’t Look in the Freezer” recounts giggles, griefs in bringing a viable clinic to life. Eddington has penned a blue-ribbon memoir with nuanced prose and perfect doses of levity for animal enthusiasts and anyone appreciating bare-knuckled storytelling and a lyrical voice.”
– Chad V. Broughman — author of The Fall of Bellwether
“I thought the chapter about me was exaggerated. And a little mean.“
– David, Eddington’s dog
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