Spend your holiday with someone extraordinary by picking up one of our great new memoirs
Spend your holiday with someone extraordinary by picking up one of our great new memoirs
Nothing puts you in another person's shoes like a good book, and summer is the perfect time to try some on for size - whether it's revolutionaries, athletes or ordinary people surviving extraordinary circumstances. Here's our pick of the best real life stories for 2019, from the hilarious to the ridiculous via several jaw-dropping detours. Who will you be spending your summer with?
Having made her name as a dating columnist, you might expect tales of romance to make up the bulk of Alderton's memoir. But dating woes play just a small part in this series of poignant and hilarious personal essays that also includes lists, stories and even recipes. Above all , Everything I Know About Love is an ode to female friendship which explores the highs and lows of life in your twenties: the hedonism and hangovers, the unspoken mourning that occurs when everyone starts to get into relationships. Everything I Know... feels like spending time with a wise and worldly friend - who can also make you snort out loud laughing when she feels like it.