Everything I Know About Love
The bestselling love letter to female friendship and major BBC One series
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
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.
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WHAT READERS ARE SAYING:
‘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
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Despite being written before her 30th birthday, journalist Dolly Alderton’s gloriously entertaining memoir reveals a very wise head. Everything I Know About Love feels like time spent with one of your favourite friends—Alderton has a wonderful self-deprecating warmth to her writing that encouraged a “just a few more pages” approach every time we picked it up. More than simply an enjoyable traipse through her history of unworthy boyfriends and hedonistic misadventures, Alderton’s book is also a celebration and intelligent study of female friendships.
Customer Reviews
Great and funny read!
A very good read, so funny and so relatable! Dollys experiences are those of everyone’s in some way, shape or form.
This book is like a warm hug from an old friend.
What comfort it is to read a book about the turmoil and troubles of being twenty-something. Dolly is so warm and friendly in her writing. She’s comforting and honest and doesn’t sugar coat the hard stuff. I can’t wait to read it again and re-live the joy of Dolly’s words.
Relatable
It was okay, I read it after watching the series, but the series was strangely better