Dolly Alderton, GHOSTS

Dolly Alderton, GHOSTS

Dolly Alderton returns to talk about her debut novel, Ghosts, which is now an international bestseller. Dolly and Zibby discuss the book's snarky but heartening portrayal of mom friends, how they both always find themselves with short-term obsessions, and why those who are chronically late might be the most optimistic people in our lives. Dolly also shares what her experience has been like on set filming the TV adaptation of her memoir, Everything I Know About Love, and some of the new wisdom she has adopted throughout the process.

Dolly Alderton, EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LOVE

Dolly Alderton, EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LOVE

Dolly: I've always had lots of different things on the go in my early twenties. In my twenties, I had an actual grown-up office job where I was a TV producer. Then I was a freelancer writer in the evening and at weekends. Then I went solely over to freelance writing when I was twenty-six. Beyond that, I started a podcast four years ago. Then I did a newsletter for a while. Then I also was writing scripts. I've always wanted to straddle lots of different types of writing and conversations and interviewing formats. One wasn't really enough to keep me stimulated initially. I'm like that across every aspect of my life. I've always been someone who really just wanted to do it all intensely and feel a lot, a lot of the time. I really channeled a lot of that ravenousness into pursuing lots of different avenues with work.