Dear Dolly: On Love, Life and Friendship, the instant Sunday Times bestseller

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She is the author of two Sunday Times bestselling works of non-fiction: Everything I Know About Love , which won a National Book Award (UK) for Autobiography of the Year and was made into a BBC One TV Series, and Dear Dolly , a collection of her agony aunt columns from The Sunday Times Style magazine. this book is made up of collected advice from dolly's sunday times agony aunt column, and as expected, each response blends empathy, humour and emotionally intelligent wisdom in a way that is so quintessentially dolly: comforting, light and reminiscent of having a long coffee with an old friend.

i think this is one of the most annotated books in my collection now, and i know i’ll be referring back to it countless times. You will not feel like this for ever, I promise, and what will be left is awe that you could love someone so much. It was as if I had crept down to the docks under cover of darkness and floated a message out in a bottle, imagining how it might be received. i definitely recommend it when you are in need of an uplifting, meaningful work exploring many topics in a light-hearted but impactful manner. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.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 .

I did find most of the questions and answers to be for those quite a bit younger than myself, but there are a few that pertain to Gen X readers. She is the author of the 2018 memoir Everything I Know About Love, the 2020 novel Ghosts and last year's Dear Dolly: On Love, Life and Friendship. What I liked about her responses to each reader were that they were carefully planned, and considerate of both the reader’s feelings and the person/people they were in conflict with.

Her first book Everything I Know About Love became a top five Sunday Times bestseller in its first week of publication and won a National Book Award for Autobiography of the Year. Capturing the hearts and minds of young romantics and dreamers, she offers sage and sisterly advice to those in need ― Magic Radio Book Club --This text refers to the paperback edition.

dear dolly is made up of snippets from dolly alderton's agony aunt column in the sunday times, so it’s the perfect, low-maintenance book that you can dip in and out of whenever you have 5 minutes. I did find the dating and friendship sections a little repetitive at times (possibly because I was reading in big chunks) but the great thing about this book is you can go back and forth between sections. Alderton is so gifted at making people care' Marian Keyes --This text refers to the paperback edition. Sent pictures of various pages to my friends and I know I’ll be referring back to it at times of need.The book is relatively slim at just over 200 pages with pretty large print, which I find is standard for collected column type books. What surprised me most about this book on the positive side was the way it is written in which, as is the collection of Dolly's advice in the Dear Dolly column in The Sunday Times Style, we can read the person's perspective and doubts about a certain subject and then the answer provided by Dolly. Furthermore, I really liked that the book covered several themes, namely friendship, relationships and family. Their questions range from the painfully - and sometimes hilariously - relatable to the occasionally bizarre.

The questions are divided up into love, friendship, family, sex, relationships and what is termed ‘body and soul’ – appearance and drinking are just some of the questions covered. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit. She is a columnist for The Sunday Times Style and has also written for GQ, Red, Marie Claire and Grazia. While none of the questions selected for this book was really compatible with my life right now, I still found reading her replies empathetic and friendly.If you're looking for some encouragement and advice with issues in your life, then this meaningful book just might hit the spot.