I enjoyed this book and thank Netgalley and the publishers for giving me the opportunity to read it.

Funny in parts, this is overall a good book. It's not my normal kind of read but I did enjoy it overall. Recommended.

I received this book from NetGalley and the publisher, in return for an honest review. This review is based entirely on my own thoughts and feelings.

Overall: 3*
Writing : 4*
Relatability : 4*
Preachiness : 2*
Humor: 2*

Now this has been on my shelf for 4 years, but I am so glad I waited that time to read this. I relate so much more to what she was saying now, than I would have before. I'm not good at a non-fiction that tells you how you should feel and what you should do in certain situations, and this definitely had a level of that. I didn't laugh out loud as other reviews have said, but I did think her writing style was fab. I can definitely see why this has rave reviews but it lacked that extra humor and sass that I was expecting to take this from good, to great.

I did not read this book but would like to in the future. Unfortunately for me, it was archived before I could download it.

Dolly has a magical way of writing where you feel connected to her even if you don't necessarily relate to the story she's telling. We've had starkly different lives, yet I just know we'd have a great laugh together.
Dolly traverses the terrain of romantic and platonic relationships; of joys and sorrows; of confidence and insecurity. She's hilarious yet vulnerable, bubbly yet not afraid to talk about times when she may not have felt that way.
This book is a love letter to the life of a modern woman, and a thoroughly enjoyable read at that!

A humorous memoir from a well known columnist. Everything I Know About Love has become one of those books that everyone has read, and for good reason! Dolly Alderton examines her love life (and the rest of her life) with a refreshing honesty. I requested this book as I always enjoyed her column in the Sunday Magazine, and her bouncy style of writing makes for an easy read.

Thank you for the galley!

One of my favourite books EVER. Alderton writes with such flair - her writing is confident, relatable and manages to strike you to your core. This is a book that I'll be recommending to everyone.

Very late to the Dolly Alderton party but I loved this book. She's a bit younger than me and her love life is very different to mine, but I could relate absolutely and can spot friends in her amazing stories of drunken nights out, ultimately due to not feeling like you have a place in the world.

For people who want to relive the feeling of waiting for the boy you like to reply to your msn message, or the classic a/s/l in a chat room.

Brutally boring, cliché and a bore to get through. I don't know how anyone got through this - it was a slog. Swerve.

Beautiful, honest and hilarious.

Highly recommend this for love synics and die hard romance fans alike. Dolly's writing style is much like her witty and excuberant personality and reads like a cold glass of white wine... in the back of a black cab... drank enthusiastically through a straw.

Wonderful!

I found the end of my twenties really difficult. I had the breakdown of my first real relationship, I had the breakdown of my longest standing friendship because of said relationship and I just found the whole thing to be quite traumatic. There was no guidebook on growing up. For those currently in their twenties I would say that you should thank every available higher power source because you now have one.

Dolly Alderton’s Everything I Know About Love is a candid memoir of how life isn’t easy and how we often screw it up and how we can fix things around us and how sometimes we make really stupid decisions and how sometimes we do not know what is for the best. In conclusion, it is your twenties wrapped in a pretty book sleeve.

Everything I Know About Love really resonated with me. There were times I was just sat, shocked, that someone had been able to verbalise a feeling I had or how she inherently understood the power of female friendship. I was bowled over.

This is the kind of book that I feel the government should send out as a birthday gift when you reach the age of 21. It would save us all years of anguish and heartache.

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Being a GenX gal, when I first heard about this book, I dismissed it out of hand as another exercise in naval gazing by a millennial. I’ve got quite enough of that in the popular press without having to read about it in a book, too. But I reluctantly picked it up because, if nothing else, Dolly Alderton is a good writer. In the end, I could not resist the charms of this book. It is not a catalogue of dating mishaps and avocado toast breakfasts. Instead, it is a tale of the importance of friendships and how your friends become your family. The book tells us that love comes in all sorts of ways, not just romantically. I gave a copy to my teenage niece for Christmas—I think she should learn the importance of her friends sooner rather than later.

Thank you to NetGalley and FigTree for a review copy in exchange for an honest review.

It's taken me a while to read this book because I struggled to connect with it whilst I was reading it on my Kindle. But when I listened to the audiobook I laughed, I cried and I simply wanted to hug Dolly.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for this arc in exchange for an honest review. I’m a regular listener of Dolly Alderton’s podcast, The High-Low with Pandora Skyes, so was really looking forward to this memoir. This was a quick and easy read, but not a smooth one for me unfortunately. While I enjoyed the nostalgia of the late 90s and early noughties, I did however find the anecdotes in this book repetitive and tedious at times. I’m very conflicted because while I love Dolly’s voice and POV on her podcast in this book however she came across rather whiny, selfish, privileged and self-absorbed. Reading about how teenagers and later twenty-something year old get repeatedly drunk at parties and their typical shenanigans got too tedious for me. I felt like this book was the equivalent of watching a bunch of millennials’ instastory. Nothing new here for me personally. It’s a disappointing 2 stars from me.

This book is everything, Aggressively frank about the ups and downs of love, friendship and the trials of life as a young woman finding her way in the world, it's a book every 20-something (and every 30-something) should read. It is funny and honest, as well as acutely aware of the anxieties that the millennial privilege affords us, whilst not undermining the difficulties created by a world of 'humble bragging' and 'having it all'. Dolly Alderton is the silly yet articulate best friend we all wish we had.

Alderton is at her most insightful when she writes about the death of her friend's sister, and of her own therapy; I had a sense of the author as she truly might be instead of how she would like her readers to see her.. Interestingly the issues worked through with her counsellor are reflected in the structure and content of the book. which was curiously fragmented, offering up only a fleeting sense of self and insight. This partial insight was particularly frustrating at times, especially when Alderton writes about her encounter with the Welshman at a wedding in NYC which, if a man had behaved that way, would be swiftly denounced as sexual harassment and coercion. Passed off as an existential crisis and the result of mixed messages from the man (again, this would be staggering if implied or said about a woman), I was left to wonder if this was one of the things Alderton had yet to learn about love.

I wasn't quite sure if I was reading Helen Fielding, a Carrie Bradshaw column, or even Lena Dunham; indeed Alderton's piece about baby showers is super-reminiscent of a SATC storyline and I'm not sure whether pages and pages of anecdotes about what the author did when drunk is as interesting to others as it might be to her friends. Clearly, Alderton has a fan base though so maybe people do like hearing 'when I was pissed I did this thing' stories.

It's competently written and absolutely has its poignant moments (Alderton is dead right about friends being the love of one's life even if Bill Nighy's character in Love Actually already made that point), but ultimately I was left a bit unmoved and this is a shame because I really do enjoy Alderton's newsletters and magazine pieces. She is clearly a writer of considerable talent.

Hearing Dolly Alderton read this story of her life and love is something I think everyone should do. It’s a really fun time. Her memoir follows her through falling in love with other people and herself, self-sabotage and self-loathing, jobs and university, living arrangements and friendship. It’s just about everything you need as a 20 something year old about to head out into the big wide world for the first time.

Alderton is incredibly candid about what she had experienced and her feelings towards it all. No detail is spared, right down to the Rod Stuart cut out for the disaster of a house party, or the awkward dates with people she really wasn’t interested in at all. Her openness makes it feel like you’re talking to a friend for a couple of hours, and I’d happily listen to her over and over again.

Mid-way through & also in my late-twenties, I am finding 'Everything I know about love' a decent read so far.

Written from the perspective of a twenty-something year old woman, this book charts her progress from pubescence to adulthood with enviable precision. It's like reading back my acute thoughts as an adult, but as a child. Everything from my love affair with MSN to female friendships, frenemies, and sex, Dolly perfectly sums up my thoughts & feelings on her pages.

I love Dolly's style of writing - albeit less intellect, and more conversational - and the thematic composition of this book. Without once trivialising her interests (fashion, boys, celebrities and socialising - ok, ok, PARTYING lol), Dolly is able to convey her deepest and shallowest thoughts and feelings about a multitude of relationships and life experiences concisely, but in the developing tone of a child-to-human. Brilliant.

This book encompasses the central themes of the 21st-century: a fascination with all things celebrity and reality. Parties, drugs, sex, friendship are its mainstays, retold in a charmingly entertaining way. What I didn't like is the casual reference to 'Class A' drugs as if they are nothing out of the ordinary, something everyone does. Drugs were a feature of life when I was in my teens and twenties, but they weren't socially acceptable as they are now.

A very funny and easy read, she's the friend who always makes you laugh and has a worse story than you whenever you've embarrased yourself!

A memoir rather than an autobiography, based on truth and articles and columns previously published.

An insight (for me) into the world of the millenials and their lives as renters and users of dating apps and drinking especially.

We drank as students, of course we did, and there were some drugs about too, but I married young and so never really experienced a long period of post-uni dating. We did share though, even after marriage as we just couldn't afford our flat without 'lodgers', so we turned a 2 bed flat into a 3 bed and lived without much of a lounge except when we all sat together to watch TV on one guy's bed-sofa. As I stopped being a post-grad and started earning money our flat-mates gradually moved out - the last with a bit of a push!

This book was brutally truthful. a real soul baring of life as lived by Dolly. Her life's highs and lows. Love and loss. And it cannot help but affect the reader.

I suspect we all recognise something of ourselves (especially women) in Dolly and it certainly made me think about myself and my behaviours and how they did or did not match up.

And thanks for the recipes, Dolly. I intend to make the ice-cream and a variant on the apple pizza one day - not the marzipan though as this would be just too sweet for our taste.