Second coming of age novels and memoirs by Dolly Alderton, Annie Lord and more are capturing what it's really like to be a woman in your 20s

The best new books capturing what it's like to be in your 20s 

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We can’t buy houses; we want to settle down much later, if it all… I’m 27, but I act like a 21-year-old. Going out all the time, never doing a big food shop, living in a big messy house share

Friendships are so key to getting you through the messy and difficult parts of life, and there is nothing messier than your early 20s

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From Annie Lord to Lauren Rae, these stories prove it's OK not to have it all figured out.

The second coming of age: the new wave of books helping us navigate the messiness of early adulthood