Dear Dolly: On Love, Life and Friendship, the instant Sunday Times bestseller

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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 .

What I liked about her responses to each reader were that they were carefully planned, and considerate of both the reader’s feelings and the person/people they were in conflict with. She is a columnist for The Sunday Times Style and has also written for GQ, Red, Marie Claire and Grazia.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. 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. 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. Furthermore, I really liked that the book covered several themes, namely friendship, relationships and family.

These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. You will not feel like this for ever, I promise, and what will be left is awe that you could love someone so much. From 2017 to 2020, she co-hosted the weekly pop-culture and current affairs podcast The High Low alongside journalist Pandora Sykes. I wish this book was longer, and would have loved to read her thoughts on more specific and nuanced topics, since even topics that didn't directly relate to me in this book allowed for her to impart some universal wisdom; however I understand these were taken from her Sunday Times column and can only appeal to so niche an audience. 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.

Capturing the hearts and minds of young romantics and dreamers, she offers sage and sisterly advice to those in need ― Magic Radio Book Club --This text refers to the paperback edition. 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. Her writing is funny but also poignant and actually gives time to problems individuals have that may otherwise be dismissed as ‘pointless drivel’. In my opinion, it is a short (230 pages) and easy read, but very informative and accessible, in which we can identify with many of the doubts mentioned.

i think this is one of the most annotated books in my collection now, and i know i’ll be referring back to it countless times. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Dolly’s first book ( everything I know about love)blew me away, her second fictional book ( Ghosts) was something I had to grind my way through it and this one is not great! i look forward to dipping in and out of it the next time i find myself wishing i had a millennial big sister to bring me back down to earth. Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall). She puts so much thought and effort into her answers and some of the problems she deals with are SO relatable.