Dear Dolly

<b>Dolly Alderton</b> is an award-winning author screenwriter and journalist based in London. She is a columnist for <i>The Sunday Times Style</i> and has also written for <i>GQ Red Marie Claire </i>and<i> Grazia.</i> She is the former co-host and co-creator of the podcast <i>The High Low</i>. Her first book <i>Everything I Know About Love </i>became a top five <i>Sunday Times</i> bestseller in its first week of publication won a National Book Award (UK) for Autobiography of the Year and was made into a BBC One TV Series. <i>Ghosts </i>her first novel was published by Fig Tree in 2020. <i>Dear Dolly</i> a collection of her agony aunt columns from the <i>Sunday Times Style </i>magazine was also a <i>Sunday Times </i>bestseller. <b>A compendium of good advice </b>from her <i>Sunday Times </i>columns <b><i>Dear Dolly</i> is Dolly Alderton at her wise warm and witty best. All of human life is contained in these pages</b>: from dating apps to eating disorders too much sex not enough sex and the ebb and flow of friendships relationships and situationships. <b>I felt like a better kinder person for having read these letters and Dolly's thoughtful replies</b> With a <b>thoughtful</b> essay about what answering others' questions has taught her this collection of Alderton's agony aunt advice offers <b>bundles of empathy</b> <b>(and zero judgement)</b> about life's problems from <b>totally relatable </b>dilemmas to the <b>entertainingly voyeuristic</b> Her <b>refreshing </b>take makes for <b>compulsive reading</b>. The result is an oddly <b>soothing </b>book as the problems of others leave you not with a sense of schadenfreude but with t<b>he comforting realisation that something you have felt or are feeling has been felt by countless others</b> - and it will always be that way Alderton has <b>struck a chord </b>with a generation ... <b>Invaluable</b> ... A <b>must</b> for die-hard Dolly fans <b>Capturing the hearts and minds</b> of young romantics and dreamers she offers <b>sage and sisterly</b> advice to those in need <p><b>'Dolly Alderton at her wise warm and witty best' Red</b><br><br>Since early 2020 Dolly Alderton has been sharing her wisdom warmth and wit with the countless people who have written in to her <i>Dear Dolly</i> agony aunt column in<i> The </i><i>Sunday Times Style</i>. 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.<br><br>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.<br><br><b>'Alderton is so gifted at making people care' Marian Keyes</b><br><br>A <i>Sunday Times</i> bestseller November 2022</p> <p><b>'Dolly Alderton at her wise warm and witty best' Red</b><br><br>Since early 2020 Dolly Alderton has been sharing her wisdom warmth and wit with the countless people who have written in to her <i>Dear Dolly</i> agony aunt column in<i> The </i><i>Sunday Times Style</i>. 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.<br><br>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.<br><br><b>'Alderton is so gifted at making people care' Marian Keyes</b><br><br>A <i>Sunday Times</i> bestseller November 2022</p>