Everything I know about love

Her extremely funny, sometimes heartbreaking, autobiography Dolly Alderton became global bestseller and has been translated into 22 languages!

What is it like to grow up, become an adult, and along the way learn how to manage friendship, work, loss, and love?

When it comes to the trials and triumphs of adulthood, the journalist and former columnist for Sunday Times she has seen and tried it all. In her autobiography she vividly recounts how she fell in love, how she found a job, how she got drunk, how she was dumped,

how she realized that Ivan from the corner convenience store might be the only reliable man in her life and that no one, in the final analysis, can compare to her best friends. The All What I Know About Love It talks about bad dates, good friends, and most importantly, the realization that you are enough.

With intelligence and insight, emotion and humor, Dolly Alderton weaves her personal stories, sarcasm and self-mockery, giving us a series of lists, recipes and conclusions that will touch the most sensitive chords of every woman, of every age – making you want to pick up the phone and tell all about this book to your friends. Something like Bridget Jones's Diary , but true from beginning to end, the Everything I Know About Love It talks about the difficult first steps of adulthood with all its terrifying yet hopeful uncertainty.

EXCERPTS FROM THE BOOK

"' Inside we are all seventeen with red lips,'" I once read Laurence Olivier saying. I agree with him with all my heart."

"My friends, rightly, thought it was crazy that I had become so obsessed with someone I didn't know so quickly. But I was used to it - finding a new love interest for me was always like a greedy child opening a toy on Christmas Day. I would tear off the wrapping, get frustrated trying to get it to work, play with it psychotically until it broke, and then throw the broken plastic pieces in the back of a cupboard the day after Christmas."

“After I came back, things got easier for a while. The heavy coat of sadness I had been wearing for so long was starting to lift. I made a good plan for what I wanted to do from now on. I fell deeply in love with my city again. I read Bill Bryson books about England and ate Toffee crisps. I remembered how lucky I was to live in the place where I was born, a place full of my friends. Two months after I came back I quit my job and became a freelancer. A month after that I was given a column in the Sunday Times.”

WHAT THEY HAVE SAID ABOUT THE BOOK

 "There is no writer like Dolly Alderton these days, and very soon the world will know it."

— Lisa Taddeo, #1 New York Times bestselling author Three Women

"The Nora Ephron of the Tinder generation."

— Financial Times

 "Dolly Alderton has always been a sparkling firework of talent. She is funny, intelligent and completely dedicated to the wonders and oddities of the world."

— Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author Eat , Pray , Love and The New York Girls

 "I loved it so much, I didn't want it to end, Dolly Alderton is so gifted at making others care. A rare talent."

— Marian Keyes

"The Sunday Times columnist paints the story of her coming of age with tenderness. Alderton's portrait is an example of love. A breath of fresh air for those who have struggled – or still struggle – with the drama of the first steps of adulthood."

— Kirkus Reviews