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Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come
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  • Published: 30 May 2019
  • ISBN: 9781473571327
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 8 hr 51 min
  • Narrator: Jessica Pan
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Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come

An Introvert’s Year of Living Dangerously

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Paperback
28 Apr 2020
EBook
30 May 2019
Audiobook
30 May 2019
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One hilarious and painful year of misadventures in extroverting. Jess Pan goes out on behalf of all the introverts to answer the question: is it really true that extroverts have all the fun?

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come written by Jessica Pan.

What would happen if a shy introvert lived like a gregarious extrovert for one year? If she knowingly and willingly put herself in perilous social situations that she’d normally avoid at all costs? Jessica Pan is going to find out.

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?
  • Published: 30 May 2019
  • ISBN: 9781473571327
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 8 hr 51 min
  • Narrator: Jessica Pan
Categories:

About the author

Jessica Pan

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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Praise for Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come

Tender, courageous and extremely funny, this book will make us all braver.

Daisy Buchanan

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

A chronicle of Pan’s hilarious and painful year of being an extrovert.

Stylist

Absolutely bloody great. As a textbook, concrete, public changing, foghorn extrovert, I find Jessica Pan’s descriptions of introversion and shyness fascinating and she is very funny.

Nell Frizzell

Painfully hilarious

Red

Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come achieves what so many books claim (but then frankly fail) to do: making you laugh, while at the same time managing to inspire. Pan is a gem, and her introvert's exploration of extroversion is all at once delightful and deftly rendered.

Sara Barron

Relatable, moving, and fantastically funny.

Rhik Samadder

Hilarious, unexpected and ultimately life-affirming.

Will Storr

Well, I adored this. Beautifully written, fascinating and so, so funny. Had me properly guffawing on the bus.

Lauren Bravo

Beautifully written and so funny! I related to it A LOT.

Emma Jane Unsworth