Good Material

<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. Leaves you heartsore but happier. <b>Irresistible</b> Have you ever wondered what a lost love was thinking? In this <b>ingeniously constructed</b> and <b>endlessly amusing </b>novel Dolly Alderton flips the script on everything we think we know about romantic loss to bring us an <b>unforgettable</b> character on a <b>deeply relatable</b> downward spiral. <b>Wise and relatable and pee-your-pants funny</b>. I cried by page 5. <b>Dolly Alderton is quite simply the bard of modern day love</b> <b>WONDERFUL</b> ... Shot through with Dolly's characteristic emotional intelligence ... <b>Very funny</b> ... Such a <b>pleasure to read</b>. I <b>devoured</b> it ... I award it <b>13/10</b> on my QWJ scale (stands for Queasy With Jealousy that I didn't write it) This is the <b>greatest</b>. You’ll cry and laugh. I read it through the night. And I never ever avoid sleep I <b>adored</b> it! I ... Dolly is <b>THE comic writer of our generation</b>. This feels like her most ambitious book yet and it <b>delivers on every single page</b>. She uses humour so brilliantly to underpin <b>the quiet roar of romantic despair</b> - this book is <b>raw smart and human</b>. This makes me believe <b>Dolly knows everything there is to know about love</b>. <b>Made me laugh while punching me in the gut</b>. Loved this book <b>Dolly Alderton just gets better and better</b>. <i>Good Material</i> is both <b>heartbreaking and hilarious</b> with an ending that has you holding your breath. With the wit of Nick Hornby and the emotional scalpel of Nora Ephron <b>Alderton is one of our greats</b> and this is sure to be <b>an absolute classic</b> A <b>funny tender</b> novel about human relationships. By turns l<b>augh-out-loud</b> <b>eye-roll relatable</b> and <b>'stop you in your tracks' heart-wrench</b>. A <b>thoroughly modern romantic masterpiece</b>. <b>Highly relatable</b> for millennials navigating dating in London and <b>hugely insightful </b>for those generations wanting to understand them. Packed with sharp observations and wisdom. <b>A triumph</b> The bestselling author brings her <b>warmth emotional intelligence</b> and <b>wry observation</b> to bear on her second novel ... <b>Refreshing</b> <p><b>Every relationship has one beginning.<br>This one has two endings.</b><br><br>Andy loves Jen. Jen <i>loved </i>Andy.<br>And he can't work out why she stopped.<br><br>Now he is. . .<br>1. Without a home<br>2. Waiting for his stand-up career to take off<br>3. Wondering why everyone else around him seems to have grown up while he wasn't looking<br><br>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.<br><br>Andy still has a lot to learn not least his ex-girlfriend's side of the story.<br><br><b>From the bestselling author of <i>Ghosts </i>and <i>Everything I Know About Love</i>: a </b><b>sharply funny beautifully observed and exquisitely relatable story of heartbreak and friendship and how to survive both.</b></p> <p><b>Every relationship has one beginning.<br>This one has two endings.</b><br><br>Andy loves Jen. Jen <i>loved </i>Andy.<br>And he can't work out why she stopped.<br><br>Now he is. . .<br>1. Without a home<br>2. Waiting for his stand-up career to take off<br>3. Wondering why everyone else around him seems to have grown up while he wasn't looking<br><br>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.<br><br>Andy still has a lot to learn not least his ex-girlfriend's side of the story.<br><br><b>From the bestselling author of <i>Ghosts </i>and <i>Everything I Know About Love</i>: a </b><b>sharply funny beautifully observed and exquisitely relatable story of heartbreak and friendship and how to survive both.</b></p>