A review by miajakobsen
Everything I Know about Love: A Memoir by Dolly Alderton

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

4.0

I typically don’t enjoy modern books with a casual tone so I started this book pretty skeptical, but I ended up really enjoying it! Alderton’s stories picked up about halfway through for me, and by the end, I was so engaged with the text. I loved the way the book interspersed recipes and other emails between chapters - it was a brilliant creative choice that highlighted Dolly’s humour perfectly. The "Dear friends…" chapter was really good and the chapter on Florence was particularly touching (yes, I cried). The book ends on a lovely note highlighting that while Alderton has not been the most romantically successful, she knows a lot about love because of her friendships with women (cue that Hozier x Anne with an E edit).