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No One Tells You This A Memoir

Glynnis MacNicol

"I found myself underlining sentences, and then entire passages, that resonated with me, articulating the extreme inadequacy and sense of dislocation single women of a certain age, like MacNicol—and like me —experience in moments when others are growing closer without you…an anthem to choosing the s...

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

They described the memoir as chronicling the author's terrible 39th year and how waking up at 40 turned into the best year of her life.

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She wrote a first book, which was called No One Tells This. Basically, 39 was the worst year of her life. She was freaking out about turning 40. She just thought, when I turn 40, it's gonna be horribl...

— Episode: Synced: Jesus Christ Superstar

Episode: Synced: Jesus Christ Superstar

They described the memoir as chronicling the author's terrible 39th year and how waking up at 40 turned into the best year of her life.

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She wrote a first book, which was called No One Tells This. Basically, 39 was the worst year of her life. She was freaking out about turning 40. She just thought, when I turn 40, it's gonna be horrible. And then she woke up and she was like, this is the fucking best. And she was like, no one tells you that actually like your 40s.

Episode: Synced: MSP

They said a friend had written a whole book titled "No One Tells You This" and noted that the author claimed no one had told her that information before.

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she wrote a whole book on no one tells you this and she was like no one told me that

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