Product Description
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come
Author: Jessica Pan
Format: Paperback
An Introvert’s Year of Living Dangerously
'Funny, emotional and deeply inspiring, this is perfect for anyone wanting to break out of their comfort zone' — Heat
What would happen if a shy introvert lived as an out-and-out extrovert for one year? Jessica Pan is about to find out...
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When she found herself jobless and friendless, sitting in the familiar Jess-shaped crease on her sofa, she couldn't help but wonder what life might have looked like if she had been a little more open to new experiences and new people, a little less attached to going home instead of going to the pub.
So, she made a vow: to push herself to live the life of an extrovert for a year. She wrote a list: improv, a solo holiday and... talking to strangers on the tube. She regretted it instantly.
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come follows Jess's hilarious and painful year of misadventures in extroverting, reporting back from the frontlines for all the introverts out there.
But is life actually better or easier for the extroverts? Or is it the nightmare Jess always thought it would be?
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'In a world of self-care and nights in, this book will inspire and remind you to do some things that scare you every so often.' — Emma Gannon
'Tender, courageous and extremely funny, this book will make us all braver.' — Daisy Buchanan
'A chronicle of Pan's hilarious and painful year of being an extrovert.' — Stylist
About the Author
Jessica Pan is a journalist whose work has appeared in the likes of the Guardian, New York Magazine, ELLE, VICE and more.
She has a B.A. in Psychology from Brown University and a Masters in Journalism from RMIT. Jessica is also the author of Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come: One Introvert’s Year of Saying Yes, and the co-author of Graduates in Wonderland, an epistolary memoir about living in Beijing and Paris. She previously worked as a TV reporter and magazine editor in Beijing and now lives in London. She writes about working at a tiny indie bookstore in her Substack newsletter It'll Be Fun, They Said. Find her @JessyPanPan on Instagram.
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