Dolly Alderton/Pandora Sykes

[BrideHouse]

Her son’s name (the first two names I think are lovely) is on the birth announcement on her IG, just prior to Christmas.

I see it now! I feel like an idiot

 

[lakawe77]

I’m mildly surprised that Dolly hasn’t come onto social media to celebrate Pandora’s book launch today.

I know what is that about?! Maybe she wanted an essay in the book?

 

[Nugget1973]

I couldn’t watch it live as I was doing bath/bedtime etc with my daughter. I’m going to watch it tomorrow as I’ve heard it will be up for 48 hours. How long did the live last?

Like an hour 10?

 

[Cloak]

I don’t really know what you mean by this.
I notice a lot of tiny attitudes and incidences in the day-to-day lives of my colleagues and friends where you can tell they just do not compute what life is like for a large percentage of the country, and I notice it in D&P too.

That's interesting, can I ask a bit more about what that looks like? (Genuinely, I am interested, so not trying to say it doesn't happen or anything!)

 

[slugella]

Been lurking here a few days and I'm so glad to have found a place that puts my thoughts on Pandora down in words that make sense!

I've been a HL listener for a while now and though I actually don't mind Dolly, something about Pandora has always sat funny with me - and now reading here, I'm so aware that it's the class thing. I read Dolly's book Everything I Know About Love and while some of it was completely ridiculous (spending the £££ on the taxi to see a boy, for example) there were enough elements of it that mirrored my experience living as a twenty four year old in London that I enjoyed it and I think as a result I feel Dolly is the more relatable of the two, but even listening to the HL, Pandora has struck me as being so unrelatable.

Sorry for the rant - just glad to have found this thread!

Agree about Dolly. I didn't love the book but did like bits of it and I think reading about her friendships and her living with them showed a side to her that I could relate to even if she was wealthier and working in TV, whereas I haven't seen this with Pandora. Even when Dolly wrote about her school which was a private school which I can not relate to at all, she still articulated struggles and lack of confidence which I could relate to.