Harmless but essentially won’t make you feel good to listen to it and also very London centric so if you’ve never lived in the capital you may find it quite alienating. basically it’s a thinly veiled fictionalised everything I know about love. I really wanted more depth from the author than this and for her character to be less tearing down other women that were different to her and have some kind of character development. It threw so much shade at women in relationships and hen dos that it made it uncomfortable to Listen to as it just sounded bitter. if anything it was more bitter and horrible and seem to say that anyone following anything like a society convention is silly and self Absorbed. And There was nothing new or developed in these ideas. But this was just a reworking of all her ideas in the previous book and conversations with cohost. I love Dolly and loved the first book and her high low podcast. the performance of Holliday was such that her voice kept whispering off so had to turn the volume up - then she would blast my ears! I wonder if it is the performance which made this so blerch for me and made it seem so mightier than thou and all the description became this softly spoken wispy dreamlike nonsense which made me think the protagonist a pretentious wally. There's no solace to be found in her family, with a mum who's caught in a baffling mid-life makeover and a beloved dad who is vanishing in slow-motion into dementia.ĭolly Alderton's debut novel is funny and tender, filled with whip-smart observations about relationships, family, memory and how we live now. Friendships are fading, ex-boyfriends are moving on and, worse, everyone's moving to the suburbs. Everywhere she turns, she is reminded of time passing and opportunities dwindling.

When she meets Max, a beguiling romantic hero who tells her on date one that he's going to marry her, it feels like all is going to plan.Ī new relationship couldn't have come at a better time - her 30s have not been the liberating, uncomplicated experience she was sold. Nina Dean has arrived at her early 30s as a successful food writer with loving friends and family, plus a new home and neighbourhood. Narrated by Holliday Grainger, star of Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tell It to the Bees and Animals. The first novel from the award-winning, best-selling author of Everything I Know About Love.

Ghosts by dolly alderton