Good Material

If Dolly’s memoir Everything I Know About Love summed up being twentysomething then this, her second novel, is a tender and funny love letter to our tumultuous 30s

If Dolly’s memoir Everything I Know About Love summed up being twentysomething then this, her second novel, is a tender and funny love letter to our tumultuous 30s

Brilliantly observed … Beautifully written , pacy and excellent on rejection, friendship and letting go. Fabulous

Laugh-out-loud dialogue on every page ... No-one has a firmer grasp on the themes she explores. Good material, indeed

Funny, sad and true ; a book she has clearly poured her soul into ... Cements her status as a fiction heavyweight

This is the greatest . You’ll cry and laugh. I read it through the night. And I never, ever avoid sleep

It's so good . I loved it

Leaves you heartsore but happier. Irresistible

Made me laugh while punching me in the gut . Loved this book

Sharply written and acutely observed ... A beautifully nuanced portrayal of modern love that will have you racing to the last page

Have you ever wondered what a lost love was thinking? In this ingeniously constructed and endlessly amusing novel, Dolly Alderton flips the script on everything we think we know about romantic loss, to bring us an unforgettable character on a deeply relatable downward spiral. Wise and relatable and pee-your-pants funny . I cried by page 5. Dolly Alderton is, quite simply, the bard of modern day love

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.