#179: Dolly Alderton: On A Very Busy And Exciting Whirlwind Year

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emma gannon

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

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🗓️ 10 February 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Dolly Alderton returns to Ctrl Alt Delete, again! 2018 was quite the year for Dolly with the release of Everything I Know About Love, which stayed in the Sunday Times bestseller chart for 32 weeks. She also won the Specsavers National Book Award Autobiography of the Year Award was one of six authors shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year Award. Her book is out in paperback today (go buy it!), and she is celebrating the opening night of the launch with book tour, starting at the London Palladium, performing to an audience of more than 2000 people. It also sold out within 24 hours. She’s a judge for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019, and her own podcast The High Low and Love Stories continues to grow in popularity.

Dolly has been on this podcast twice before and I am thrilled to have caught up with her again for this episode reflecting on her whirlwind year. We talk about how to carve out time to write; online dating; supporting other women and the crazy success of her book.

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0:53.7	Thank you so much to King Fisher for sponsoring this podcast.
0:56.7	Hello and welcome back to Control of Delete, the podcast where I interview
1:07.0	interesting creative people about technology, creativity and how the
1:11.4	two work together. Really excited to have Dolly Olderton back on the
1:16.4	podcast. This is the third time that Dolly has been on the podcast, but I just find a
1:22.2	lot of what she's doing truly fascinating at the
1:24.9	moment and she never runs out of things to say there's always things to discuss and
1:29.9	I've found following her career this year just so exciting and interesting
1:35.0	she has had such a brilliant year. Her book, Everything I Know About Love, has been
1:40.4	in the Sunday Times Bestseller chart for 32 weeks.
1:44.4	She also won the Spexavers National Book Award for autobiography of the year
1:50.0	and was one of the six authors alongside Sally Rooney shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year.
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