Dear Dolly: On Love, Life and Friendship, the instant Sunday Times bestseller

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I devoured this book, as I have all her books because her writing style really connects home for me. 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.

Alderton is so gifted at making people care' Marian Keyes --This text refers to the paperback edition. 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.what I learnt from sharing my most private pain with a semi-professional problem-solver was that the mere act of asking for help was, in itself, healing. 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. Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall). 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 liked about her responses to each reader were that they were carefully planned, and considerate of both the reader’s feelings and the person/people they were in conflict with. Furthermore, I really liked that the book covered several themes, namely friendship, relationships and family.What surprised me most about this book on the positive side was the way it is written in which, as is the collection of Dolly's advice in the Dear Dolly column in The Sunday Times Style, we can read the person's perspective and doubts about a certain subject and then the answer provided by Dolly. While I was reading this book I felt like I was almost having a conversation with an older sister that I never had.

The questions are divided up into love, friendship, family, sex, relationships and what is termed ‘body and soul’ – appearance and drinking are just some of the questions covered.Sent pictures of various pages to my friends and I know I’ll be referring back to it at times of need. 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. While none of the questions selected for this book was really compatible with my life right now, I still found reading her replies empathetic and friendly.