Dolly Alderton

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.

Nina Dean has arrived at her early thirties as a successful food writer with loving friends and family, plus a new home and neighbourhood. When she meets Max, a beguiling romantic hero who tells her on date one that he's going to marry her, it feels like all is going to plan. A new relationship couldn't have come at a better time - her thirties have not been the liberating, uncomplicated experience she was sold. Everywhere she turns, she is reminded of time passing and opportunities dwindling. Friendships are fading, ex-boyfriends are moving on and, worse, everyone's moving to the suburbs. There's no solace to be found in her family, with a mum who's caught in a baffling mid-life makeover and a beloved dad who is vanishing in slow-motion into dementia. Dolly Alderton's debut novel is funny and tender, filled with whip-smart observations about relationships, family, memory, and how we live now.

From the bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a story of heartbreak and friendship and how to survive both. Andy's story wasn't meant to turn out this way. Living out of a suitcase in his best friends' spare room, waiting for his career as a stand-up comedian to finally take off, he struggles to process the life-ruining end of his relationship with the only woman he's ever truly loved. As he tries to solve the seemingly unsolvable mystery of his broken relationship, he contends with career catastrophe, social media paranoia, a rapidly dwindling friendship group and the growing suspicion that, at 35, he really should have figured this all out by now. Andy has a lot to learn, not least his ex-girlfriend's side of the story. Warm, wise, funny and achingly relatable, Dolly Alderton's highly-anticipated second novel is about the mystery of what draws us together - and what pulls us apart - the pain of really growing up, and the stories we tell about our lives.

'What I learnt from sharing my most private pain with a semi-professional problem-solver was that the mere act of asking for help was, in itself, healing. It was as if I had crept down to the docks under cover of darkness and floated a message out in a bottle, imagining how it might be received. By writing it, I was acknowledging that someone might care about me; that they'd be able to say the right thing without knowing me. Because I was feeling something that other people had felt and therefore I wasn't, as I suspected, the loneliest and strangest woman in the world.' Since early 2020, Dolly Alderton has been sharing her wisdom, warmth and wit with the countless people who have written in to her Dear Dolly agony aunt column in The Sunday Times Style. Their questions range from the painfully - and sometimes hilariously - relatable to the occasionally bizarre. They include breakups and body issues, families, friendships, dating, divorce, the pleasures and pitfalls of social media, sex, loneliness, longing, love and everything in between. Without judgement, and with deep empathy informed by her own, much-chronicled adventures in love, friendship and dating, Dolly leads us by the hand through the various labyrinths of life, proving that a problem shared is truly a problem halved.

Die erfolgreiche Food-Autorin Nina George Dean trägt ihren zweiten Vornamen, weil ein Hit von Wham! an ihrem Geburtstag vor zweiunddreißig Jahren auf Platz eins der Charts stand. Das beeindruckt Max, den sie von einer Dating-App kennt und der auf rasante Weise ihr Herz erobert. Doch genauso schnell, wie er Nina an der Nachtbushaltestelle das ewige Glück versprochen hat, verschwindet er plötzlich wieder aus ihrem Leben – ohne eine Spur zu hinterlassen. Gleichzeitig plant Ninas Exfreund seine Hochzeit, und ihre beste Freundin erwartet ihr zweites Baby. Und dann erkrankt ihr geliebter Vater an Demenz. Als Nina alles zu entgleiten droht, wünscht sie sich nur noch sehnlichst in ihre Jugendtage zurück – bis sie erkennt, dass das Leben immer in dem Moment zwischen Vergangenheit und Zukunft spielt. Der große Roman über Beziehungen in all ihren Formen – hinreißend, lustig und tief berührend erzählt.

Uma comédia romântica sobre os homens que desaparecem assim que dizem que te amam... Nina Dean não está especialmente incomodada por estar solteira aos trinta. Tem o seu apartamento, é uma escritora de culinária bem-sucedida e tem suficientes amigos para manter a agenda social cheia. Ao instalar uma aplicação de encontros, conhece o homem certo logo na primeira saída. Têm conversas espirituosas e irónicas, partilham um ódio por desporto, dançam juntos como dois loucos, criam um universo inteiro de piadas particulares e têm uma química inigualável. Mas, quando Max deixa de lhe responder, Nina é forçada a lidar com tudo o que tem tentado esquecer... Engraçado e dolorosamente relacionável, o romance de estreia de Dolly Alderton está repleto de observações inteligentes sobre relacionamentos, família, memória e a vida moderna.