if you just want something not to serious and something that feels like a gossip session with a friend; this would be an excellent choice.

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. 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. 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. Next time you feel one of those further cracks of heartbreak, think of it as a strange sort of privilege.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.

If you're looking for some encouragement and advice with issues in your life, then this meaningful book just might hit the spot. I thought this was Dolly talking about her love life and friendship but turns at to be about her Agony aunt work. 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! 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.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. She puts so much thought and effort into her answers and some of the problems she deals with are SO relatable. Their questions range from the painfully – and sometimes hilariously – relatable to the occasionally bizarre. 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. 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 .

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. what I really loved in this was that her humor still shines through really well and I laughed out loud multiple times.Her first novel Ghosts was published in October 2020 and was also a top five Sunday Times Bestseller. 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. This book is a collection of her newspaper columns from the UK newspaper The Sunday Times, so UK readers may have read these before. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.