Dolly Alderton

everything-i-know-about-love

For the latest books, recommendations, author interviews and more

source_10558

By signing up, I confirm that I'm over 16. To find out what personal data we collect and how we use it, please visit our <a href="/company/about-us/notices/privacy-policy/">Privacy Policy</a>

Keep an eye out for a confirmation in your inbox

Stories, ideas and giveaways to help you spark young imaginations

source_10972

The latest books, activities and tips to help you grow little readers

source_10975

About us

About Us (Header 4)

john-le-carre-a-legacy-of-spies-960-2.jpg

Margaret Atwood

Richard Osman

Malorie Blackman

George Orwell

marian_keyes_mobile_320x200px.png

Elif Shafak

shonfaye

Authors (Header 3)

Books (Header 2)

Company

Features (Header 1)

Penguin Shop (Header 5)

Useful links

Ghosts

Good Material

On Love, Life and Friendship, the instant Sunday Times bestseller

Dear Dolly

with a new introduction from Dolly Alderton

I Feel Bad About My Neck

Everything I Know About Love

It's here! Browse the 2024 Penguin Christmas gift guide

Returning as a luxury hardback to gift and to treasure, Everything I Know About Love is a celebration of our female friendships, of our messy years, and of growing up together. 
 
NOW WITH A BRAND NEW INTRODUCTION FROM DOLLY 
 
"I could never have predicted how many people would read my story, and thank God I didn’t otherwise I would never have been as candid as I was when I wrote it. 
 
This book is about my friendships, but it’s about your friendships too. This book is about the people who lived alongside me in a very ordinary, very special time of life. 
 
This book is a love letter" - Dolly Alderton 
 
Glittering with wit, heart, and humour, it's a book to share with every woman you've ever been lucky enough to call a friend. 
 
 
Irish Times bestseller, August 2024

Dolly Alderton is an award-winning author, screenwriter and journalist based in London. She is a columnist for the Sunday Times Style magazine and has also written for GQ, Red, Marie Claire and Grazia. She is the former co-host and co-creator of the podcast The High Low. Her first book, Everything I Know About Love, became a top-five Sunday Times 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. Ghosts, her first novel, was an instant Sunday Times bestseller. Dear Dolly, a collection of her agony aunt columns from the Sunday Times Style magazine, was published in 2022 and was also a Sunday Times bestseller.

“Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women.” 
 
I know that love can be loud and jubilant. It can be dancing in the swampy mud and the pouring rain at a festival and shouting “YOU ARE AMAZING” over the band. It’s laughing until you wheeze. It’s walking along the street together on a Saturday night and feeling an entire city is yours. 
 
I also know that love is a pretty quiet thing. It’s lying on the sofa together drinking coffee, talking about where you’re going to go that morning to drink more coffee. It’s folding down pages of books you think they’d find interesting. 
 
I know that love happens under the splendour of fireworks and sunsets, but also happens when you’re lying on blow-up airbeds in a childhood bedroom, sitting in A&E or in the queue for a passport. 
 
Everything I Know About Love is a celebration of our female friendships, of our messy years, and of growing up together. Glittering with wit, heart, and humour, it’s a book to share with every woman you’ve ever been lucky enough to call a friend.

Everything I Know About Love

Select a format:

Retailers:

Summary

About the author

Dolly Alderton

More from this Author

Sign up to the Penguin Newsletter