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Everything I Know About Love

***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER***`A wonderful writer, who will surely inspire a generation the way that Caitlin Moran did before her` Julie Burchill`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`I can say with absolute certainty that you have to add it to your 2018 book list` The PoolWhen it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist and former Sunday Times dating columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her 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.Glittering 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 - while making you laugh until you fall over. Everything I know About Love is about the struggles of early adulthood in all its grubby, hopeful uncertainty.A spot-on, wildly funny and sometimes heart-breaking book about growing up, growing older and navigating all kinds of love along the wayPraise for
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affectingly tender. A joy. In short, it`s a stone cold classic` Sophie Dahl

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***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER***`A wonderful writer, who will surely inspire a generation the way that Caitlin Moran did before her` Julie Burchill`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`I can say with absolute certainty that you have to add it to your 2018 book list` The Pool When it comes to the trials & triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist & former Sunday Times dating columnist Dolly Alderton has seen & tried it all. In her 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, & 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 &
- above all else
- about recognising that you & you alone are enough. Glittering with wit & insight, heart & humour, Dolly Alderton`s powerful debut weaves together personal stories, satirical observations, a series of lists, recipes, & other vignettes that will strike a chord of recognition with women of every age
- while making you laugh until you fall over. Everything I know About Love is about the struggles of early adulthood in all its grubby, hopeful uncertainty.A spot-on, wildly funny & sometimes heart-breaking book about growing up, growing older & navigating all kinds of love along the way Praise for Everything I Know About Love` With courageous honesty, Alderton documents her life up to now, the highs & the lows
- the sex, the drugs, the nightmare landlords, the heartaches & the humiliations. Deeply funny, sometimes shocking, & admirably open-hearted & optimistic. Only this writer, in this time, could have made such a mesmerising pattern from mess & colour. A brilliant debut.` Daily Telegraph` It`s so full of life & laughs
- I gobbled up this book. Alderton has built something beautiful & true out of many fragments of daftness` Amy Liptrot I loved its truth, its self awareness, humour & most of all, its heart-spilling generosity. Just when you think it`s going one (wonderful) way, it takes you somewhere infinitely more rugged, complicated & all the more affectingly tender. A joy. In short, it`s a stone cold classic` Sophie Dahl

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