
Things I Know About Love [9781853409998]
Livia's experience of love has been disappointing to say the least. But all that is about to change. After years of illness, she's off to spend the su…
Award-winning 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 flat-shares, 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
'The book we will thrust into our friends' hands . . . that will help heal a broken heart. Alderton's wise words can resonate with women of all ages. She 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
'I loved its truth, self awareness, humour and most of all, its heart spilling generosity' Sophie Dahl
'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
'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
AUTHOR: Dolly Alderton is an award-winning journalist who has written for publications including the Sunday Times, the Daily Telegraph, GQ, Marie Claire, Red and Grazia. From 2015 - 2017 she was the Sunday Times Style's dating columnist. She is the co-host of the High Low, a weekly pop culture and current affairs podcast, and also writes and directs for television. This is her first book.