When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist and former Sunday Times dating columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In this book, she vividly recounts falling in love, wrestling with self-sabotage, finding a job, throwing a socially disastrous Rod-Stewart themed house party, getting drunk, getting dumped, realising that Ivan from the corner shop is the only man you've ever been able to rely on, and finding...

"Dolly Alderton is one of the foremost 'it' writers of our time. . . . There is no writer quite like Dolly Alderton working."—Lisa Taddeo, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Three Women

"Alderton is Nora Ephron for the millennial generation."—Elizabeth Day, author of How to Fail and The Party

Advice and answers to your questions about dating, love, sex, family, friendship and

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"Dolly Alderton Gwen is coasting through life. She's in her mid-thirties, perpetually single, her friends are busy procreating in the countryside and conversations with her parents seem to revolve entirely around the council's wheelie-bin timetable. And she's lonely. But then, isn't everyone? When she's made redundant from a job she hardly cares about, she takes herself out for a fancy dinner. There she has the best sticky toffee pudding of her life...