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"Her smart memoir celebrates women who forge their own paths, ignoring the cultural scripts they’ve been handed." - New York Times ' Paperback Row' Pick​​

"A rare and necessary perspective on the profound exhilaration of the untethered female life." - New York Magazine


"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." -- Amanda Stern, New York Times

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"That she lets us in on this journey is a gift.” - Buzzfeed

"A perfect balance between edgy and poignant." - People

"Her honest and funny stories about love, sex, grief and friendship help shape an image of contemporary womanhood that is both demanding and gratifying." - TIME

"MacNicol’s memoir is not a rah-rah-I-don’t-need-a-man-so-f***-you type of book. Instead, it’s something better ― it’s honest." - Huffington Post

"Engaging and honest...MacNicol is relatable, and the joy she finds in her life, lived on her own terms, is striking." - Booklist

"Amid the raft of motherhood memoirs out this summer, it’s refreshing to read a book unapologetically dedicated to the fulfillment of single life" - Vogue

"Will resonate with countless women and men" - Publishers Weekly
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"Unapologetic...MacNicol offers a refreshing view of the possibilities--and pitfalls--personal freedom can offer modern women. A funny, frank, and fearless memoir." - Kirkus

"Smart and hilarious and exactly as nuanced as you want it to be." - GOOP

​"A piercing examination" - Rebecca Traister
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​*Named one of the Best Books of 2018 by ESQUIRE, FINANCIAL TIMES, and the CBC
​* TIME Best Memoirs of 2018 So Far
​* ELLE 30 Best Books to Read This Summer
* BUZZFEED 30 Summer Books To Get Excited About
* VOGUE 13 Books to Thrill, Entertain, and Sustain


Glynnis MacNicol generously imparts the kind of wisdom we are usually so loathe and suspicious to receive. She doesn't proselytize, she doesn't pander, she doesn't beat you over the head with inspirational buzzwords. She simply tells the truth about her life. In my 20s, I was too dumb and terrified to articulate my desires. In my 30s, my fear is that society won't let me become the woman I want to be. This is the blueprint.
—Aminatou Sow, co-host Call Your Girlfriend

"No One Tells You This takes readers from Canada to New York to Wyoming in its mapping of contemporary adulthood, unmoored from the institutions that once defined it for women. Wrestling with loneliness, independence, grief and exhilaration, MacNicol offers a piercing examination of what it means both to love grown-up, complicated women—mothers, sisters, friends, intergalactic princesses—and to be one.” 
—Rebecca Traister, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger ​

“Glynnis has written a book that is honest, hilarious and raw—it misses nothing. Her voice literally jumps off the page and becomes your friend, sister, caretaker, asskicker.”
—Alyssa Mastromonaco, Who Thought This Was a Good Idea

“No One Tells You This 
is the story of a woman living by her own rules—alone—and having the audacity to enjoy it. Glynnis lays bare the complexity of being a woman on her own in the world, in all its heartbreak, humor and, yes, joy.”
—Jessica Bennett, Feminist Fight Club

"Revealing as a three-martini lunch with a smart friend, this candid memoir shows a woman choosing to live happily (if also conflictedly) ever after on her own."
— Ada Calhoun, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give


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​Interviews
  • Gender Letter: An Ode to Old Maids Everywhere - New York Times
  • Glynnis MacNicol’s No One Tells You This Puts a Happy Single Woman at the Center - VOGUE
  • Why Are Women Shamed For Wanting To Stay Single? Talking with Glynnis MacNicol about her new book ‘No One Tells You This’ - NYLON
  • Two Writers on the Joys of Being Single, But Also Sometimes Dating, in Your 30s - Healthyish
  • No one tells you life as a 40-year-old single woman could be this good - Washington Post
  • Midlife without a roadmap: women writers and the new 40 - Toronto Star
  • How I Wrote It - CBC Books​
  • Glynnis MacNicol's Memoir 'No One Tells You This' Is A Fresh Perspective On Womanhood When You're Single, Childless, And Over 40 - Bustle
  • ​Mystic Medusa

​Podcasts/Radio/Television
  • Everything is Fine
  • The Juggle: Relationships in Your 40s - The Takeaway (WNYC)
  • Summer Books 2018; Friends with Babies -- Call Your Girlfriend
  • 40 Isn't A Four-Letter Word - Forever35 
  • 'Maybe I just like being alone' - CBC Radio
  • Of A Kind
  • The Sunday Longread
  • Tell Better Stories About Single Women - A Single Serving Podcast
  • Real talk with feminist visionaries -- Radicals & Revolutionaries Lab, Continuum Collective
  • The Other F Word
  • The Green Room with Orla Barry (Ireland) 
  • New Book About Older, Single, Childless Women to be Happy Without Regret, Guilt with Author Glynnis MacNicol - KTLA (VIDEO)


​Reviews for 'No One Tells You This'
  • Going Solo: An Author Chooses — and Celebrates — Life Without a Partner or Kids - New York Times
  • Single, 40 and childless: Why is that still a problem? - Washington Post
  • ‘No One Tells You This’: The Triumph Of Choosing A Single, Childfree Life At 40 - Huffington Post
  • The midlife crisis — and how to deal with it - Financial Times
  • New memoirs: Donald Hall and Glynnis MacNicol reflect on life passages - Newsday
  • Best Memoirs of 2018 So Far - TIME
  • Paperback Row Pick​ - New York Times, July 2019 
  • The Power of Being Single - The Sunday Times (UK)
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