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Good Material

By (author) Dolly Alderton

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From the bestselling author of Everything I Know About Love and Ghosts, Good Material is a sharp, witty, and painfully relatable exploration of heartbreak in your thirties. While Alderton is famous for capturing the “female experience,” Good Material marks a departure as it is written primarily from a male perspective.

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SKU: 9780241993163

3 in stock

ISBN: 9780241993163

Book Format: Paperback / softback

Pages: 352

Dimensions: 12.9 × 2.1 × 19.7 cm

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Description

The story follows Andy Dawson, a 35-year-old struggling stand-up comedian whose life is upended when his girlfriend of four years, Jen, unexpectedly breaks up with him. Suddenly homeless and adrift, Andy becomes obsessed with solving the “puzzle” of why their relationship failed. As he navigates the indignities of single life—from staying on friends’ couches to stalking Jen’s social media—he attempts to turn his misery into “good material” for his comedy set. The novel is cleverly structured, providing Andy’s side of the story for the majority of the book before shifting to Jen’s perspective in the final act, revealing that every relationship has two distinct endings.

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  • Paperback / softback | 352 pages
  • 12.9 × 2.1 × 19.7 cm | 246
  • 01 August 2024
  • Penguin Books Ltd
  • United Kingdom

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About the author

Dolly Alderton

9 Published Books

Dolly Alderton is an award-winning author, screenwriter and journalist based in London. She is a columnist for the Sunday Times Style magazine and has also written for GQ, Red, Marie Claire and Grazia. She is the former co-host and co-creator of the podcast The High Low. Her first book, Everything I Know About Love, became a top-five Sunday Times bestseller in its first week of publication, won a National Book Award (UK) for Autobiography of the Year and was made into a BBC One TV series. Ghosts, her first novel, was an instant Sunday Times bestseller. Dear Dolly, a collection of her agony aunt columns from the Sunday Times Style magazine, was published in 2022 and was also a Sunday Times bestseller.

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