
Dear Dolly
On Love, Life and Friendship
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Dolly Alderton
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Dolly Alderton
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'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. 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. By writing it, I was acknowledging that someone might care about me; that they'd be able to say the right thing without knowing me. Because I was feeling something that other people had felt and therefore I wasn't, as I suspected, the loneliest and strangest woman in the world'
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. 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.
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.
©2022 Dolly Alderton (P)2022 Penguin AudioListeners also enjoyed...
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"Alderton is Nora Ephron for the millennial generation." (Elizabeth Day)
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- stanley
- 12-03-22
Loved it
Feel like I'm using Dolly as my personal life coach. My only wish is that "Dear Dolly" was longer.
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- Federica
- 11-05-22
Dear Sugar but millennial and British
I just love Dolly Alderton, and this book is so genuine and never banale. I love that it’s narrated by her, I wouldn’t have enjoyed it in the same way if it wasn’t.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-02-22
Lovely book
Loved listening to this! Fun, sincere and entertaining. Extremely well written and hearing Dolly reading the book adds extra charm to it.
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