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Dolly Alderton looks back on her twenties. She shares what those years taught her about love. She tells of failed dates and grim shared flats. She recalls heartbreak and times when she felt shame. She writes of casual flings and nights spent drinking. There are rash taxi rides late at night, too. At the heart are the women who helped her through. Their friendship plays a key role in her story.

This memoir speaks to women as they become adults. It also speaks to those looking back on that time. Alderton shows how love grows on big nights out. It grows in quiet days spent together, too. She shows how close friends change as they grow up. She blends humour with frank thoughts on her own mistakes.

Alderton has won awards for her work as a journalist. This edition adds a chapter on turning thirty. The memoir won a 2018 National Book Awards prize. It won in the autobiography category. It also made the Waterstones Book of the Year shortlist.