Dolly Alderton on turning her life into streaming series Everything I Know About Love


Whisper Dolly Alderton’s name to a young woman and she will probably squeal in delight.

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The British writer, podcaster and journalist is a superstar to millennials for her honest

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and fresh perspectives on everything from geopolitical conflicts to the Sex and the City revival.

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Her podcast with Pandora Sykes, The High Low, was wildly popular before it was wound

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up in late-2020 and her memoirs about her 20s, Everything I Know About Love, was short-listed for a National Book Award in the UK.

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She wrote and talked about the world as if it was you and a friend catching up for a brunch session.

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For a certain generation – and women of privilege – Alderton was one of them. She got it.

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The messiness and heartbreak of friendship is at the core of Everything I Know About

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Love, which has just been adapted into a streaming series on Stan, a semi-fictionalised version of Alderton’s memoirs.

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