Good Material

Andy is a stand-up comedian in his mid-thirties who has just been dumped by Jen — the woman he thought he was going to spend his life with. He didn't see it coming. He doesn't understand it. And he's absolutely not handling it well.

Told with devastating honesty and Dolly Alderton's trademark wit, Good Material is the story of a heartbreak from the inside — the obsessive replaying of the relationship, the long conversations with friends, the bad decisions, and the slow, reluctant process of letting go. It is also, unexpectedly, a story about what it means to be a man today, and the things we struggle to say out loud.

Funny, frank, and deeply felt, Alderton's debut novel is everything readers loved about Everything I Know About Love — only this time, from the other side of the breakup.