Description
Dolly Alderton opens Good Material from inside Andy’s head just after Jen has ended their relationship, and he genuinely cannot work out why. The novel follows him through the wreckage — friendship, self-pity, the specific humiliations of being newly single in your thirties — before Alderton does something a lot of breakup novels don’t bother with and gives Jen’s side equal weight. Alderton’s first novel, Ghosts, and her memoir Everything I Know About Love were both Sunday Times bestsellers, and Good Material keeps the same sharp, funny voice turned on a much messier subject.
