I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself by Glynnis MacNicol - ISBN: 9781785124945
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Parisian escape: a joyful quest for pleasure, freedom, and self.

I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself

One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

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  • Paperback

    304 pages

  • Release Date

    23 April 2025

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Summary

Come to Paris, August 2021, when the City of Lights was still empty of tourists and a thirst for long-overdue pleasure gripped those who wandered its streets.

After New York City emptied out in March 2020, Glynnis MacNicol, aged forty-six, unmarried with no children, spent sixteen months alone in her tiny Manhattan apartment. The isolation was punishing. A year without touch. Women are warned of invisibility as they age, but this was an extreme loneliness no one can prepare you for. W…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781785124945
ISBN-10:1785124943
Author:Glynnis MacNicol
Publisher:Bonnier Books Ltd
Imprint:Leap
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:23 April 2025
Weight:354g
About The Author

Glynnis MacNicol

Glynnis MacNicol is the author of I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman’s Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris.

Her previous memoir, No One Tells You This (S&S, 2018), was named one of the Best Books of 2018 by Esquire, the Financial Times, and the CBC, and was a 2019 New York Times ‘Paperback Row’ pick.

MacNicol hosted, and produced WILDER: A Reckoning with the Legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder, for iHeart Media. It was an official Tribeca Festival 2023 Selection.

In 2021, she co-produced and story-edited iHeart Media’s Under the Influence podcast, hosted by Jo Piazza. It’s been named to multiple ‘best of’ lists.

She’s written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Cut, New York Daily News, Town & Country, The Daily Beast, GEN, and ELLE, among others.

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