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Everything I Know About Love
- Author
- Dolly Alderton
- Narrator
- Dolly Alderton
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 16 January 2018
- Run Time
- 8 hours 34 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Memoirs, Published diaries, letters and journals, Humour, Feminism and feminist theory, Relationships and families: advice, topics and issues
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
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What to expect
A celebration of our female friendships, of our messy years, and of growing up together. Glittering with wit, heart, and humour, it’s a book to share with every woman you’ve ever been lucky enough to call a friend.
“Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women.”
I know that love can be loud and jubilant. It can be dancing in the swampy mud and the pouring rain at a festival and shouting “YOU ARE AMAZING” over the band. It’s laughing until you wheeze. It’s walking along the street together on a Saturday night and feeling an entire city is yours.
I also know that love is a pretty quiet thing. It’s lying on the sofa together drinking coffee, talking about where you’re going to go that morning to drink more coffee. It’s folding down pages of books you think they’d find interesting.
I know that love happens under the splendour of fireworks and sunsets, but also happens when you’re lying on blow-up airbeds in a childhood bedroom, sitting in A&E or in the queue for a passport.
‘A book every girl in her 20s needs to read’
‘I’ll never stop recommending this book’
‘This is my comfort book! I LOOOOVE THIS BOOK TO MY CORE’
‘I wish I could read it for the first time again’
A Sunday Times bestseller, September 2022
TikTok Book Awards Winner, August 2023
© Dolly Alderton 2018 (P) Penguin Audio 2018
Critics Review
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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
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Very, very, very funny. Don't hate me when I tell you that Everything I Know About Love is Sex And The City for millennials, because I mean it as high praise
Red
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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
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Mesmerising, brilliant
Daily Telegraph
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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
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I thought I knew a lot about love. Not as much as Dolly. Read as soon as possible.
Sharon Horgan
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If Nora Ephron is the cool aunt you wish you'd had, Dolly Alderton is your favourite cousin. I loved it and I can't imagine anyone who wouldn't; it's a genuine delight
Kristen Roupenian, author of Cat Person
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Witty and insightful
Sunday Times Culture
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You will quite literally laugh and cry as Dolly crashes her way through her teens and twenties. This is about growing up and all the mess that comes with it. I loved it.
The Pool
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Exquisite, hilarious, I loved every page. I was dazzled by her warmth and wisdom: Dolly has written an extraordinary book that all women will be able to relate to
Emma Jane Unsworth
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Details
- Author
- Dolly Alderton
- Narrator
- Dolly Alderton
- Duration
- 8 hours 34 minutes
- Release Date
- 16 January 2018
- ISBN
- 9780241983188
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Memoirs, Published diaries, letters and journals, Humour, Feminism and feminist theory, Relationships and families: advice, topics and issues
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
A celebration of our female friendships, of our messy years, and of growing up together. Glittering with wit, heart, and humour, it’s a book to share with every woman you’ve ever been lucky enough to call a friend.“Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women.”I know that love can be loud and jubilant. It can be dancing in the swampy mud and the pouring rain at a festival and shouting “YOU ARE AMAZING” over the band. It’s laughing until you wheeze. It’s walking along the street together on a Saturday night and feeling an entire city is yours.I also know that love is a pretty quiet thing. It’s lying on the sofa together drinking coffee, talking about where you’re going to go that morning to drink more coffee. It’s folding down pages of books you think they’d find interesting.I know that love happens under the splendour of fireworks and sunsets, but also happens when you’re lying on blow-up airbeds in a childhood bedroom, sitting in A&E or in the queue for a passport.‘A book every girl in her 20s needs to read’‘I’ll never stop recommending this book’‘This is my comfort book! I LOOOOVE THIS BOOK TO MY CORE’‘I wish I could read it for the first time again’A Sunday Times bestseller, September 2022TikTok Book Awards Winner, August 2023© Dolly Alderton 2018 (P) Penguin Audio 2018
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