No one tells you this : a memoir

Author

Glynnis MacNicol

Call Number

• 921 M1698 (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2018.

Physical Description

293 pages ; 23 cm

Summary

The co-founder of TheLi.st describes the discrimination she endured as a careerwoman without a spouse or child, tracing her midlife journey of self-discovery and how it challenged her beliefs about love, death, sex, friendship, and loneliness.

Contents

• Prologue: Numerology
• The forecast
• Husband material
• Messages from invisible sources
• Woman of a certain age
• Women never really faint
• The jet set
• Choose your own rom-com
• The grown-up
• Having it all
• The showdown
• On the road
• Be careful what you wish for
• The family you make
• The long goodbye begins
• Don't forsake those duties which keep you out of the nuthouse
• Men of a certain age
• What remains
• The other woman
• Women are well-acquainted with thirst
• We are not on the run
• The equality state
• Balls said the queen
• Epilogue: There are no happy endings, only good editing.