From falling in love to cementing friendships - with a few catastrophic Rod Stewart-themed house parties along the way - the journalist and author of Ghosts delivers a side-splitting, painfully relatable and unfailing candid guide to growing up and growing stronger.
A spot-on, wildly funny and sometimes heart-breaking book about growing up, growing older and navigating all kinds of love along the way.
When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist and former Sunday Times dating columnist Dolly Alderton has not only seen it all and tried it all but written about it too.
In her intimate memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, wrestling with self-sabotage, finding a job, throwing a socially disastrous Rod-Stewart themed house party, getting drunk, getting dumped, realising that Ivan from the corner shop is the only man you've ever been able to rely on, and finding that that your mates are always there at the end of every messy night out.
It's a book about bad dates, good friends and - above all else - about recognising that you and you alone are enough.
Everything I Know About Love is a book that is alive with wit and insight, heart and humour. Dolly Alderton's powerful debut weaves together personal stories, satirical observations, a series of lists, recipes, and other vignettes that will strike a chord of recognition with women of every age – all whilst making you laugh until you fall over. It’s a book full of heart that brings to life the struggles of early adulthood in all its grubby, hopeful and wonderful uncertainty.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780241982105
Number of pages: 384
Weight: 274 g
Dimensions: 197 x 128 x 24 mm
Poignant, witty, comic, and self-deprecating. A laugh-out-loud, lightning quick journey through the years that will resonate with anyone who's ever been young and in love. - Daily Express
Very, very, very funny. Don't hate me when I tell you that Everything I Know About Love is Sex And The City for millennials, because I mean it as high praise - Red
I loved it so much, I wanted it to go on forever, Dolly Alderton is so gifted at making people care. A rare talent - Marian Keyes
Alderton is an old soul - she has learned life lessons while not yet out of her twenties that many of us post-menopausal matrons are still struggling with. A wonderful writer, who will surely inspire a generation the way that Caitlin Moran did before her. - Julie Burchill
I thought I knew a lot about love. Not as much as Dolly. Read as soon as possible. - Sharon Horgan
Wild, witty and poignant by turns. Some real laugh out loud moments interspersed with the highs and lows of growing up. Entertaining & enthralling. Absolutely recommended
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This is book is a gorgeously funny and occasionally heartbreaking memoir of love, friendship and what it was like to come of age in the new millennium. It is full of Dolly Alderton’s signiture wit and wisdom. A love... More
A funny, honest and entertaining account of the highs and lows of the relationships and types of love we encounter as we grow up. A book to put a smile on your face and appreciate the importance of friendship!
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