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. dear dolly is made up of snippets from dolly alderton's agony aunt column in the sunday times, so it’s the perfect, low-maintenance book that you can dip in and out of whenever you have 5 minutes. 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.

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. Since early 2020, Dolly Alderton has been sharing her wisdom, warmth and wit with the countless people who have written in to her Dear Dolly agony aunt column in The Sunday Times Style . Their questions range from the painfully – and sometimes hilariously – relatable to the occasionally bizarre.Alderton is so gifted at making people care' Marian Keyes --This text refers to the paperback edition. While I was reading this book I felt like I was almost having a conversation with an older sister that I never had. You're experiencing something that will soften and harden you, give you strength and allow you to be weak. some of the excerpts applied to me today, some will apply to me in the future, some maybe never but i enjoyed reading each piece so much.

I did find the dating and friendship sections a little repetitive at times (possibly because I was reading in big chunks) but the great thing about this book is you can go back and forth between sections. i look forward to dipping in and out of it the next time i find myself wishing i had a millennial big sister to bring me back down to earth. 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. This book is a collection of her newspaper columns from the UK newspaper The Sunday Times, so UK readers may have read these before. Thank God for Dolly - I’m obsessed with her deeply empathetic, entirely shame-absolving and emotionally intelligent wisdom!I devoured this book, as I have all her books because her writing style really connects home for me. 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.