Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir

New York Times Bestseller

"There is no writer quite like Dolly Alderton working today and very soon the world will know it." --Lisa Taddeo, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Three Women

"Dolly Alderton has always been a sparkling Roman candle of talent. She is funny, smart, and explosively engaged in the wonders and weirdness of the world. But what makes this memoir more than mere entertainment is the mature and sophisticated evolution that Alderton describes in these pages. It's a beautifully told journey and a thoughtful, important book. I loved it." --Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and City of Girls

The wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking internationally bestselling memoir about growing up, growing older, and learning to navigate friendships, jobs, loss, and love along the ride

When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming an adult, journalist and former Sunday Times columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, finding a job, getting drunk, getting dumped, realizing that Ivan from the corner shop might just be the only reliable man in her life, and that absolutely no one can ever compare to her best girlfriends. Everything I Know About Love is about bad dates, good friends and--above all else-- realizing that you are enough.

Glittering with wit and insight, heart and humor, Dolly Alderton's unforgettable 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--making you want to pick up the phone and tell your best friends all about it. Like Bridget Jones' Diary but all true, Everything I Know About Love is about the struggles of early adulthood in all its terrifying and hopeful uncertainty.

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368 pages

Average rating: 6.36

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hanna.kudweis
Oct 10, 2024
Das beste schönste süßeste buch ever, hab so so so viel gelernt und jedes mädchen sollte das in ihren teenage jahren lesen!! 😚
Anonymous
Oct 01, 2024
6/10 stars
Wasn’t a bad book, but a little too personable for me. I was expecting more experiencal advice rather than all the random stories. Some stories were very interesting!
iamBsquared
Aug 19, 2024
3/10 stars
This was not a memoir for inspiration, but a guide on all the things not to do when learning how to become an adult.
AndreeaA
Jul 30, 2024
6/10 stars
The book was different than I expected, probably since the title seems to grant a more enlarged view of the subject. Since I didn’t relate at all with that kind of wild life in my early 20s, the first part of the book was not a great lecture. I have to say though that I find it rather courageous of her to expose her journey as it was and it’s stunning to see how her perspective shifts over the years. Mostly in the second part of the book, some of the ideas were quite remarkable and I admire her ability of putting so accurately into words some of the deep thoughts that probably at some point ran through the back of all of our minds. I think a sequel after the next 30 years will complete the work this first volume just began.
ksalembier
Jul 23, 2024
5/10 stars
While some of the stories are funny and insightful, overall I just felt like I knew most of these “profound” lessons she was teaching us. Perhaps I would have liked it more if I read it in my very early twenties.

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