Feel bad giving this two stars because I know it’s more meant for people in their 30s and 40s not me. Their questions range from the painfully – and sometimes hilariously – relatable to the occasionally bizarre. A compendium of good advice from her Sunday Times columns, Dear Dolly is Dolly Alderton at her wise, warm and witty best. The book is relatively slim at just over 200 pages with pretty large print, which I find is standard for collected column type books. 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.

In my opinion, it is a short (230 pages) and easy read, but very informative and accessible, in which we can identify with many of the doubts mentioned. Payments made using National Book Tokens are processed by National Book Tokens Ltd, and you can read their Terms and Conditions here. 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.

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. This book is a collection of her newspaper columns from the UK newspaper The Sunday Times, so UK readers may have read these before. 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. 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. what I learnt from sharing my most private pain with a semi-professional problem-solver was that the mere act of asking for help was, in itself, healing.

From 2017 to 2020, she co-hosted the weekly pop-culture and current affairs podcast The High Low alongside journalist Pandora Sykes. 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. You're experiencing something that will soften and harden you, give you strength and allow you to be weak. Their questions range from the painfully - and sometimes hilariously - relatable to the occasionally bizarre. Dear Dolly is a heartfelt collection of Dolly Alderton's favourite questions from her Dear Dolly column.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. I devoured this book, as I have all her books because her writing style really connects home for me. 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. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. 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!

In fact, it’s not ‘pointless drivel’ when it is someone’s experience and Dolly treats these problems with respect, warmth and wit, which is exactly the type of writing I enjoy. 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. 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. 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. 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.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.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.Furthermore, I really liked that the book covered several themes, namely friendship, relationships and family. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. She puts so much thought and effort into her answers and some of the problems she deals with are SO relatable. what I really loved in this was that her humor still shines through really well and I laughed out loud multiple times.