Everything I Know About Love: As seen on Netflix, the bestselling love letter to female friendship

Name: Everything I Know About Love: As seen on Netflix, the bestselling love letter to female friendship
Rating: 4.355932235717773 (59 reviews)

Dolly Alderton

Feb 2018 · Penguin UK

59 reviews

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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.

“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.

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WHAT READERS ARE SAYING:

‘A book every girl in her 20s needs to read’

‘I’ll never stop recommending this book’

‘This is my comfort book! I LOOOOVE THIS BOOK TO MY CORE’

‘I wish I could read it for the first time again’

A Sunday Times bestseller, September 2022
TikTok Book Awards Winner, August 2023

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59 reviews

sakshi buttoo

July 14, 2019

Wow. I stormed through this book. So beautiful yet realistic. I'm recommending it to all my girlfriends.

2 people found this review helpful

Rosita B

September 28, 2026

Incredible book. Such a lovely and honest depiction of how a young female may view the World of love and romance. Love it !

michelle findlay

November 4, 2023

fun book. not what I would usually ready. but this was funny and sad. but relatable. would recommend

About the author

Dolly Alderton is an award-winning author and screenwriter based in London. She is a columnist for the Sunday Times Style magazine and 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. Both of her novels, Ghosts (published 2020) and Good Material (published 2023), were instant Sunday Times bestsellers. 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. She is the scriptwriter for the 2026 Netflix television adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

Dolly Alderton is an award-winning author and screenwriter based in London. She is a columnist for the Sunday Times Style magazine and 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 f...

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