Everything I Know About Love - Dolly Alderton - book and tv show

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Has everyone both watched the bbc tv show and read the book?

My memory of the book is that she kind of grew up a bit in it but fundamentally stands by the relative heathy appropriateness of being a big time party girl in one’s youth.

the tv show presents it all, to my eyes at least, as being quite sad. Hollow, self destructive, destructive to others being messed up all the time and not knowing when to stop.

I’m not sure where the real Dolly stands on this. Has she changed her mind? Has the beeb changed it for her? Are we all now in a post-party phase where trad-wifing it up on a Mormon homestead is where the zeitgeist is at?

This is unhelpful as both are a bit hazy but I always felt like the series left uit open for a S2. It does feel very sad at the end though when her friendship with Birdie breaks down.

Yes, it does feel sad and very unresolved. It feels pretty bleak a lot of the time and I am not sure if we are supposed to be left with the creeping feeling that the Birdie / Maggie friendship actually is a bit weird and codependent dependent. I would prefer to think that they were just really good friends who can wax and wane in closeness, not two people who clung to each other excessively in times of loneliness and now can’t cope with the realities of life and change and other relationships. I know dolly alderton worked on this show and it seems odd to me that under her oversight , her book is coming across like this. Like: close women friendships are stunted and childish. Drinking a lot and having flings is sad and hollow and trashy. People who work in tv just exploit “real” people for kicks.

I don't know, I kind of feel like it makes good observations about how friendships grow and evolve. I think that bit is nicely done. The bit where she is in NY is the depressing bit I think but interesting. I really liked watching it as there are some truths in there and also some amusing characters.

An ex bf knew Dolly at university and agreed with what I’m going to say as my takeaway of her book: she comes across as deeply self-centred. How she made her best friend’s sister dying almost instantly about her in print…shocking.

I‘m not a fan. I saw her at one of those Fane production jobbies and some of her responses to audience q&a was… a bit mean girl. I mean, kudos to her for getting book deals and columns and things, but she strikes me as a very real life self-involved Carrie Bradshaw/