‘The author of Everything I Know About Love nails the zeitgeist with a witty, relatable and acutely insightful page-turner about the trials and tribulations of the lovelorn’ Daily Express

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Every relationship has one beginning.
This one has two endings.

Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy.
And he can’t work out why she stopped.

Now he is. . .
1. Without a home
2. Waiting for his stand-up career to take off
3. Wondering why everyone else around him seems to have grown up while he wasn’t looking

Set adrift on the sea of heartbreak at a time when everything he thought he knew about women, and flat-sharing, and his friendships has transformed beyond recognition, Andy clings to the idea of solving the puzzle of their broken relationship. Because if he can find the answer to that, then maybe Jen can find her way back to him.

Andy still has a lot to learn, not least his ex-girlfriend’s side of the story.

From the bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a sharply funny, beautifully observed and exquisitely relatable story of heartbreak and friendship, and how to survive both.

‘Made me laugh while punching me in the gut. Loved this book’ AISLING BEA

‘This is the greatest. You’ll cry and laugh. I read it though the night. And I never, ever avoid sleep’ CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN

‘I award it 13/10 on my QWJ scale (stands for Queasy With Jealousy that I didn’t write it)’ MARIAN KEYES

Good Material, Instant Sunday Times bestseller, November 2023

‘This is the greatest. You’ll cry and laugh. I read it though the night. And I never, ever avoid sleep’ CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN

‘I award it 13/10 on my QWJ scale (stands for Queasy With Jealousy that I didn’t write it)’ MARIAN KEYES

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Every relationship has one beginning.
This one has two endings.

Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy.
And he can’t work out why she stopped.

Now he is. . .
1. Without a home
2. Waiting for his stand-up career to take off
3. Wondering why everyone else around him seems to have grown up while he wasn’t looking

Set adrift on the sea of heartbreak at a time when everything he thought he knew about women, and flat-sharing, and his friendships has transformed beyond recognition, Andy clings to the idea of solving the puzzle of their broken relationship. Because if he can find the answer to that, then maybe Jen can find her way back to him.

Andy still has a lot to learn, not least his ex-girlfriend’s side of the story.

From the bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a sharply funny, beautifully observed and exquisitely relatable story of heartbreak and friendship, and how to survive both.

‘The most book-based fun I had this year … It’s the most I’ve laughed while reading about heartbreak since Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity. A complete delight’ The Sunday Times, Critics’ favourite books of the year

Sunday Times bestseller, November 2023

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.

‘Alderton is so gifted at making people care’ Marian Keyes

A Sunday Times bestseller, November 2022

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.

‘Alderton is so gifted at making people care’ Marian Keyes

‘Utter BRILLIANCE . . . I absolutely LOVED it!’ Marian Keyes, bestselling author of GROWN UPS

‘I loved it’ Candice Carty-Williams, bestselling author of QUEENIE
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Everything gets easier in your thirties, right?

Though she has plenty to celebrate – successful career, new home, loving friends and family – for Nina Dean, her thirties have not exactly been the liberating experience she was sold. From fading friendships to exes popping the question, everyone is moving on (or worse, to the suburbs). And as her dad slowly loses his memories, her mum seems dead set on making new ones.

Then she meets Max, who tells her on date one that he’s going to marry her. But what seems like an exciting new development will ensure this year is Nina’s strangest yet . . .
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE

‘A book so relatable you’ll give yourself neck ache nodding in recognition’ Grazia

‘Funny, sharply observed, poignant’ Matt Haig, bestselling author of THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY

‘Alderton masterfully exposes the hideous reality of dating in your 30s . . . I adored it‘ Daily Mail

‘Like having one of those glorious girls night in, where you drink till the early hours – laughing, venting, and feeling warm and seen’ Holly Bourne, author of HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW?

‘Dolly sums up life in your thirties with such wit, warmth and accuracy’ Heat

‘Dolly is such a fantastic writer’ Jill Mansell, author of AND NOW YOU’RE BACK

‘The perfect no-holds-barred modern day rom-com’ Stylist

‘Utter BRILLIANCE. Dolly is such an insightful commentator on love, longing, friendship and emotional landscapes. I absolutely LOVED it!’ Marian Keyes
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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.
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‘The perfect no-holds-barred modern day rom-com’ Stylist

‘I loved it – Dolly Alderton has clearly mastered every form of writing. Which is a surprise to nobody’ Candice Carty-Williams

‘Witty, touching without ever being sentimental, hugely enjoyable’ David Nicholls

‘Wise, funny, tender and true, sharply-observed and utterly hilarious. Dolly Alderton’s talent is phenomenal’ Elizabeth Day

‘A fascinating, perceptive look at what it means to be a thirty-something woman . . . Ghosts will resonate with so many women’ Red, The Best Books to Read this October

‘Achingly relatable . . . darkly funny’ i

‘Really laugh out loud . . . so engaging I can’t put it down’ Philippa Perry

‘I loved it. Had me howling with laughter and recognition!’ Bryony Gordon

‘Dolly sums up life in your thirties with such wit, warmth and accuracy, you won’t want it to end’ Heat

‘A book so relatable you’ll give yourself neck ache nodding in recognition’ Grazia

‘The book we will thrust into our friends’ hands. Alderton feels like a best friend and your older sister all rolled into one and her pages wrap around you like a warm hug’ Evening Standard

‘Alderton is Nora Ephron for the millennial generation’ Elizabeth Day

Award-winning journalist Dolly Alderton survived her twenties (just about) and in Everything I Know About Love, she gives an unflinching account of the bad dates and squalid flat-shares, the heartaches and humiliations, and most importantly, the unbreakable female friendships that helped her to hold it all together. Glittering with wit, heart and humour, this is a book to press into the hands of every woman who has ever been there or is about to find themselves taking that first step towards the rest of their lives.

‘Steeped in furiously funny accounts of one-night stands, ill-advised late-night taxi journeys up the M1, grubby flat-shares and the beauty of female friendships, as Alderton joyfully booze-cruises her way through her twenties‘ Metro

‘Deeply funny, sometimes shocking, and admirably open-hearted and optimistic’ Daily Telegraph

‘A sensitive, astute and funny account of growing up millennial’ Observer

‘Alderton proves a razor-sharp observer of the shifting dynamics of long term female friendship’ Mail on Sunday

‘It’s so full of life and laughs – I gobbled up this book. Alderton has built something beautiful and true out of many fragments of daftness‘ Amy Liptrot

*Winner of Autobiography of the Year at the National Book Awards 2018*
*A Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2019*
*A Sunday Times paperback of the year 2019*
*Selected for Stylist’s The Decade’s 15 Best Books by Remarkable Women*