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

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Dolly’s first book ( everything I know about love)blew me away, her second fictional book ( Ghosts) was something I had to grind my way through it and this one is not great! There's nothing groundbreaking or new here, but it's refreshing to read answers that urge readers to be true to themselves. 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. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. 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.

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. 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. 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 wish this book was longer, and would have loved to read her thoughts on more specific and nuanced topics, since even topics that didn't directly relate to me in this book allowed for her to impart some universal wisdom; however I understand these were taken from her Sunday Times column and can only appeal to so niche an audience. Payments made using National Book Tokens are processed by National Book Tokens Ltd, and you can read their Terms and Conditions here.Their questions range from the painfully - and sometimes hilariously - relatable to the occasionally bizarre.

You're experiencing something that will soften and harden you, give you strength and allow you to be weak. 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.

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Nothing like zooming through 50-odd advice columns on a Sunday evening to put all your worries about life at ease. 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. She is a columnist for The Sunday Times Style and has also written for GQ, Red, Marie Claire and Grazia. some of the excerpts applied to me today, some will apply to me in the future, some maybe never but i enjoyed reading each piece so much. Next time you feel one of those further cracks of heartbreak, think of it as a strange sort of privilege.Her first novel Ghosts was published in October 2020 and was also a top five Sunday Times Bestseller. You will not feel like this for ever, I promise, and what will be left is awe that you could love someone so much.