Everything I Know About Love: Now a Major BBC One Series

There is no writer quite like Dolly Alderton working today and very soon the world will know it’ Lisa Taddeo, author Three Women. Alderton feels like a best friend and your older sister all rolled into one and her pages wrap around you like a warm hug’ Evening Standard. Awardwinning journalist Dolly Alderton survived her twenties (just about) and in Everything I Know About Love, she gives an unflinching account of the bad dates and squalid flatshares, the heartaches and humiliations, and most importantly, the unbreakable female friendships that helped her to hold it all together.

Glittering with wit, heart and humour, this is a book to press into the hands of every woman who has ever been there or is about to find themselves taking that first step towards the rest of their lives. Alderton is Nora Ephron for the millennial generation’ Elizabeth Day. Steeped in furiously funny accounts of onenight stands, illadvised latenight taxi journeys up the M1, grubby flatshares and the beauty of female friendships, as Alderton joyfully boozecruises her way through her twenties‘ Metro.

Deeply funny, sometimes shocking, and admirably openhearted and optimistic’ Daily Telegraph. A sensitive, astute and funny account of growing up millennial’ Observer. I loved its truth, self awareness, humour and most of all, its heartspilling generosity‘ Sophie Dahl. Alderton proves a razorsharp observer of the shifting dynamics of long term female friendship’ Mail on Sunday. It’s so full of life and laughs – I gobbled up this book. Alderton has built something beautiful and true out of many fragments of daftness‘ Amy Liptrot.

Winner of Autobiography of the Year at the National Book Awards 2018. Selected for Stylist’s The Decade’s 15 Best Books by Remarkable Women.