Dolly Alderton (Replay): Everything She Knows About Writing A Memoir

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

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🗓️ 25 August 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Welcome back to this replay episode of Ctrl Alt Delete. Recorded three(?) years ago, writer Dolly Alderton and I discuss her memoir Everything I Know About Love, writing truthfully, turning thirty and how her life changed when her memoir sky-rocketed her to suddenly being in the public domain.

Dolly Alderton is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster and author. I've known Dolly since our freelancing days at places like The Debrief magazine where I worked in 2014 and it's been so fun watching her career blossom in so many different directions over the last decade. Dolly is the author of three books: Everything I Know About Love, now a major BBC drama series which I thoroughly enjoyed watching. For EIKAL she he won a National Book Award back in 2018 and is back in the charts now (in 2022) reaching a new audience through the TV show coming out; her novel Ghosts came out in 2020 and she has a new book Dear Dolly, a book publishing this October in 2022, which is a collection of her Dear Dolly columns plus new material. She also co-created and co-hosted the weekly current affairs and pop culture podcast called The High Low. Hope you enjoy this trip down memory lane with Dolly! <3

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Check out Dolly's NEW book, Dear Dolly: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9780241623640
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0:57.8	Hello and welcome back to Control or Delete. This is a replay episode of a conversation recorded
1:03.6	with Dolly Olderton back in 2019. She is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster and writer,
1:09.5	and I've known Dolly since our freelancing days. Years ago, at places like The Debrief magazine
1:14.8	where I worked in 2014, and it's been so much fun watching her career blossom in so many different
1:20.6	directions over the last decade. Dolly is the author of three books, everything I know about love,
1:25.8	which is now a major BBC drama, which I thoroughly enjoyed watching.
1:30.4	Through this book, she won a National Book Award, she won the Waterstones Book Award.
1:35.2	She's also back in the charts now again, reaching a new audience because of the Brilliant TV show.
1:40.8	Her novel Ghosts came out in 2020, and she also has a new book coming out this year,
1:46.0	which is why I wanted to replay this episode called Dear Dolly, which is a book of her Brilliant
1:51.0	Sunday Times columns with some new material in there as well. This book is publishing this year
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