Dolly Alderton’s memoir Everything I Know About Love, written when she was in her late 20s, became a runaway bestseller. Her fellow twentysomethings clutched its tales of brilliant friends, great nights out, depleted bank accounts, bad first dates, worse one-night stands, hopes raised and dashed to their hungover bosoms and took it as their bible rather as a previous generation did with Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary. That Alderton’s book also deals with a loss of the kind you would expect to experience only in later years seemed to imbue it with some hard-won genuine wisdom, too.
Alderton has now adapted her account of those black-edged golden years into a BBC One drama series of the same name. It fictionalises the memoir, using it more as a springboard than directly as material, but it is still quintessential Alderton speaking to quintessential millennial.
