Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir *Book

"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. Read more

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Why Must Read Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir?

While I was enjoying Dolly Alderton’s novel, “Ghosts”, I ordered her memoir, “Everything I Know About Love”. I was eager to continue reading Alderton’s wry and witty way of looking at the word, particularly our culture of love and romance, sex, and gender differences. It’s both hilarious and heartbreaking…like life! I’ve had two, equally great, experiences reading memoirs; one is reading about and relating to a familiar experience, place or time (e.g., Mary Karr), the other is reading about experiences, places, and times that I am completely unfamiliar with. The latter is how I found Alderton’s memoir and I was fascinated! Her coming of age, in and around London in the 1980s to the early 2000s, was a world, a sub-culture, and a dynamic that I found at times repellent, incomprehensible, educational, and always entertaining. One huge “take away” that Alderton rhapsodizes about herein (and which I find to be true), is the importance and value of female friendships. The amazing thing is that Alderton is only 30 at the end of this memoir! I suspect more to follow! After all, now she has two successful books under her belt!

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