Review by islamaunder21 - Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir

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3.5

I found Dolly Alderton's writing style hugely engaging and hilarious, as well as her beautiful exploration of female friendship and the ways in which she has found more solice and fufillment in the women around her than her romantic and sexual relatio ships with men.
I will say that, coming from the perspective of someone in her 20s in the throws of single life and recovering heartbreak, I found the book especially uplifting, empowering and comforting.
However, this book is also imbued with white middle class experience in one of the most expensive cities (London) as Dolly muses over her time in private boarding school, her seemingly stable (albiet boring in her eyes) upbringing, trips away to the Cotswolds or Cornwall and ascent to a hugely successful career. Although their are some hugely moving passages about grief, for the most part it does speak to Dolly's priverlage that much of her biggest turmoil was men and her relationships with them, whilst many 20 something year olds grapple with just being able to get by.

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