Good Material

Every relationship has one beginning. This one has two endings.



Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy.
And he can't work out why she stopped.

Now he is. . .
1. Without a home
2. Waiting for his stand-up career to take off
3. Wondering why everyone else around him seems to have grown up while he wasn't looking

Set adrift on the sea of heartbreak at a time when everything he thought he knew about women, and flat-sharing, and his friendships has transformed beyond recognition, Andy clings to the idea of solving the puzzle of their broken relationship. Because if he can find the answer to that, then maybe Jen can find her way back to him.

Andy still has a lot to learn, not least his ex-girlfriend's side of the story.

From the bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a sharply funny, beautifully observed and exquisitely relatable story of heartbreak and friendship, and how to survive both.

Review

If Dolly’s memoir Everything I Know About Love summed up being twentysomething then this, her second novel, is a tender and funny love letter to our tumultuous 30s ― Red

Brilliantly observed … Beautifully written, pacy and excellent on rejection, friendship and letting go. Fabulous ― Daily Mail

Laugh-out-loud dialogue on every page ... No-one has a firmer grasp on the themes she explores. Good material, indeed ― Sunday Express

Funny, sad and true; a book she has clearly poured her soul into ... Cements her status as a fiction heavyweight ― inews, The best new books to read in November 2023

This is the greatest. You’ll cry and laugh. I read it through the night. And I never, ever avoid sleep ― Claudia Winkleman

It's so good. I loved it ― Sharon Horgan

Leaves you heartsore but happier. Irresistible ― Richard E. Grant

Made me laugh while punching me in the gut. Loved this book ― Aisling Bea

Sharply written and acutely observed ... A beautifully nuanced portrayal of modern love that will have you racing to the last page ― Heat

Have you ever wondered what a lost love was thinking? In this ingeniously constructed and endlessly amusing novel, Dolly Alderton flips the script on everything we think we know about romantic loss, to bring us an unforgettable character on a deeply relatable downward spiral. Wise and relatable and pee-your-pants funny. I cried by page 5. Dolly Alderton is, quite simply, the bard of modern day love ― Lena Dunham

About the Author

Dolly Alderton is an award-winning and bestselling author, screenwriter and journalist based in London. She is the author of two Sunday Times bestselling works of non-fiction: Everything I Know About Love, which won a National Book Award (UK) for Autobiography of the Year and was made into a BBC One TV Series, and Dear Dolly, a collection of her agony aunt columns from The Sunday Times Style magazine. She is also the author of two novels, Ghosts and Good Material, which were both instant Sunday Times bestsellers. She is a columnist for The Sunday Times Style and has also written for GQ, Red, Marie Claire and Grazia. She is the co-creator and former co-host of the beloved podcast The High Low.