Everything I Know About Love Fifth Anniversary Special Edition
A Memoir
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A deluxe, limited anniversary edition hardcover of Dolly Alderton's beloved New York Times bestseller, featuring a new short introduction from the author and eye-catching pink stained edges.
"There is no writer quite like Dolly Alderton working today."--Lisa Taddeo, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Three Women
"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
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.
About this Author
Dolly Aldertonis an award-winning author and screenwriter. She has written four Sunday Times best-selling books, her memoirEverything I Know About Lovebecame a top five Sunday Times bestseller in its first week of publication, won a National Book Award for Autobiography of the Year and spent 65 weeks on the New York Timesbestseller list.Her first novelGhostswas nominated for the Bolinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and a British Book Award.
Dolly's latest novel,Good Materialhas recently been published in North America and instantly became aNew York TimesBestseller as well as being named as one of their ten best books of 2024. She has written a column forThe Sunday TimesStylefor 10 years and is their resident Agony Aunt.
Reviews
"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
"Hilarious and moving. Alderton is Nora Ephron for the millennial generation." -- Elizabeth Day, author of How to Fail and The Party
"Dolly Alderton is one of the foremost "it" writers of our time. Her sexy and tender debut, Everything I Know About Love is a one-sitting book, it is a break-up recovery book, it is a honey, what can I help you with tonight book, it is a this is what your lover should make you feel book. Whatever ails you, Alderton can fix it with her intimate wisdom... 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 is one of Britain's best-known millennial writers....[with] the trusted voice of a close friend." -- New York Times
"Steeped in furiously funny accounts of one-night stands, ill-advised late-night taxi journeys up the M1, grubby flat-shares and the beauty of female friendships, as Alderton joyfully booze-cruises her way through her twenties." -- Metro
"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." -- Daily Express (London)
"[A]ssuredly self-aware and reflective." -- Library Journal
"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
"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." -- Julie Burchill
"Nora Ephron for the Tinder generation." -- Financial Times
"A Sunday Times columnist draws her coming-of-age story with tender flair... Alderton's portrait exemplifies love. A poignant breath of fresh air for those who struggled--or are struggling--with the dramedy of early adulthood." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Dolly Alderton's voice feels like your very favorite friend." -- Taylor Jenkins Reid, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Carrie Soto is Back, on Good Material
"You would struggle to find someone who flits as effortlessly between waxing poetic about Joachim Trier's The Worst Person in the World and quoting Rob Reiner's When Harry Met Sally." -- Variety
"Dolly Alderton is, quite simply, the bard of modern-day love." -- Lena Dunham, on Good Material
"Dolly Alderton is the closest person we have to a modern-day Carrie Bradshaw." -- Shondaland, on Good Material
"Dolly Alderton is one of this generation's preeminent oracles for love, romance, and heartbreak." -- Elle, on Good Material
"The writing in Dolly Alderton books is so good it'll have you thinking you're in the midst of one of those amazing, 3-hour-long lunch catch ups with an old friend where you cover all the bases: love, career, and your impending existential crisis. It's painfully relatable and oh-so-compelling." -- Brit + Co
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