Last week, the trailer for Dolly Alderton’s highly anticipated TV adaptation of her best-selling memoir, Everything I Know About Love was released. The seven-part series will be available to watch on BBC One and BBC iPlayer from the 7th of June.
Alderton worked with director China Moo-Young, and her series will star Emma J Appleton as Maggie, Bel Powey as Birdy, Marli Siu as Nell and Aliyah Odoffin as Amara. The commissioning editor for BBC Drama explained how “the BBC are incredibly excited to have this talented young cast join Dolly, China and the Working title team to create this funny, uplifting and big-hearted show about friendship and love”.
The series is set in 2012 and centres around a London house-share. It follows the lives of four friends, and in particular the relationship between childhood best friends Maggie and Birdy – can their platonic love survive the trials and tribulations of growing up and finding romantic love?
Alderton’s 2018 memoir went on to win Autobiography of the Year at the 2018 National Book Awards, Waterstones Paperback of the Year in 2019 and one of the Sunday Times paperbacks of the year in 2019, as well. Furthermore, her memoir received huge praise; fellow journalist, Elizabeth Day, referred to Alderton as “Nora Ephron for the millennial generation”.
I first read Alderton’s memoir in lockdown 2020 and I have re-read it two times since. It’s very rare to read or watch such honest and raw descriptions of friendship. It’s even rarer to see friendship placed above romantic love. And as Alderton wrote on Twitter, “Four friends. One story of great love”.
So, like many others, I can’t wait to see how Alderton has adapted her “wildly funny (and) occasionally heart-breaking bestselling memoir”, because I have high hopes and from what I’ve read, we won’t be disappointed.
You can watch the trailer here:
Words by Maggie John
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