I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself
03 July 2025Imprint: Leap
Synopsis
'A delight' The New York Times
'Delicious' Vogue
'Superb' Time
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...
'Delicious' Vogue
'Superb' Time
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...
Details
03 July 2025304 pages
9781785123627Imprint: Leap
Reviews
This superb book, an account of adventures both sensual and sexual, is largely about granting ourselves permission to experience pleasure. But it's also a sly primer on the importance of opening yourself to the world beyond your personal borders... Tour guide, seductress, adventurer: as a writer, MacNicol is all of those things. She makes you feel you've been somewhere, even if you haven't left your chair.TIME: 100 Must-Reads of 2024
