Everything I Know About Love

Friendship, not romance, turns out to be the steadiest relationship in Dolly Alderton's account of her twenties. Everything I Know About Love gathers personal essays on growing up, bad dates, house shares, hangovers, grief and the female friendships that hold a life together. Alderton, a journalist and broadcaster, writes with comic timing and sudden honesty, and the collection moves between recipes, lists and remembered scenes rather than following a straight chronology. The result reads like a memoir of a generation learning how to love badly and then rather better. What this edition offers: • Personal essays on dating, friendship and early adulthood • A voice that mixes humour with unguarded honesty • Short, varied pieces that work well read out of order • Reflections on grief, change and long-standing friendships Written for readers of contemporary memoir and women's non-fiction, this Penguin Publications edition is available from Boipoka.