מאת Dolly Alderton
TIKTOK BOOK AWARDS WINNER 2023
"Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women."
I know that love can be loud and jubilant. It can be dancing in the swampy mud and the pouring rain at a festival and shouting "YOU ARE AMAZING" over the band. It's laughing until you wheeze. It's walking along the street together on a Saturday night and feeling an entire city is yours.
I also know that love is a pretty quiet thing. It's lying on the sofa together drinking coffee, talking about where you're going to go that morning to drink more coffee. It's folding down pages of books you think they'd find interesting.
I know that love happens under the splendour of fireworks and sunsets, but also happens when you're lying on blow-up airbeds in a childhood bedroom, sitting in A&E or in the queue for a passport.
Everything I Know About Love is a celebration of our female friendships, of our messy years, and of growing up together. Glittering with wit, heart, and humour, it's a book to share with every woman you've ever been lucky enough to call a friend.
*****
WHAT READERS ARE SAYING:
'A book every girl in her 20s needs to read'
'I'll never stop recommending this book'
'This is my comfort book! I LOOOOVE THIS BOOK TO MY CORE'
'I wish I could read it for the first time again'
A Sunday Times bestseller, September 2022
TikTok Book Awards Winner, August 2023
TIKTOK BOOK AWARDS WINNER 2023
"Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women."
I know that love can be loud and jubilant. It can be dancing in the swampy mud and the pouring rain at a festival and shouting "YOU ARE AMAZING" over the band. It's laughing until you wheeze. It's walking along the street together on a Saturday night and feeling an entire city is yours.
I also know that love is a pretty quiet thing. It's lying on the sofa together drinking coffee, talking about where you're going to go that morning to drink more coffee. It's folding down pages of books you think they'd find interesting.
I know that love happens under the splendour of fireworks and sunsets, but also happens when you're lying on blow-up airbeds in a childhood bedroom, sitting in A&E or in the queue for a passport.
Everything I Know About Love is a celebration of our female friendships, of our messy years, and of growing up together. Glittering with wit, heart, and humour, it's a book to share with every woman you've ever been lucky enough to call a friend.
*****
WHAT READERS ARE SAYING:
'A book every girl in her 20s needs to read'
'I'll never stop recommending this book'
'This is my comfort book! I LOOOOVE THIS BOOK TO MY CORE'
'I wish I could read it for the first time again'
A Sunday Times bestseller, September 2022
TikTok Book Awards Winner, August 2023
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November 25, 2019
British journalist and former Sunday Times dating columnist Alderton (Man Repeller) chronicles her love life in this wryly humorous essay collection. She writes about flirting as an awkward teenager via instant messages (“It was a complex Edwardian dance of courtship and I was a giddy and willing participant”), college parties (“I scan the room for boys with working limbs and a detectable pulse”), being single in a world that seems comprised solely of couples, and escaping a Tinder-facilitated threesome. In other essays she creates lists—things she’s scared of (plane food, STDs), the most annoying things people say (“how do you find the time to do all those tweets?”), safe topics for dinner conversations (“celebrity deaths”)—and deals with her own weight issues. Alderton writes with self-deprecating humor throughout, though her most moving essay focuses on the funeral of her best friend’s sister, who died of leukemia. A hit in the U.K., this clever collection will likely speak to American audiences as well. - Daily Express 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.
- Marian Keyes I loved it so much, I wanted it to go on forever, Dolly Alderton is so gifted at making people care. A rare talent
- Julie Burchill 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.
- Sharon Horgan I thought I knew a lot about love. Not as much as Dolly. Read as soon as possible.
