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. She puts so much thought and effort into her answers and some of the problems she deals with are SO relatable. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit.

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.Dolly has an incredible ability to put herself in another person's shoes, something that sometimes seems so easy, but can actually turn out to be quite difficult. You're experiencing something that will soften and harden you, give you strength and allow you to be weak. 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. 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.

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.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. Reading this book is like having a chat with a knowledgable great friend, who can see things for what they are and name them in a really honest way.