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  • Self-Tanner for the Soul

  • How I Ran Away to Europe and Found My Inner Glow (When Life Got Dark)
  • By: Cat Marnell
  • Narrated by: Cat Marnell
  • Length: 6 hrs
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (88 ratings)

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Self-Tanner for the Soul

By: Cat Marnell
Narrated by: Cat Marnell
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Summary

From Cat Marnell, author of the New York Times best-selling memoir How to Murder Your Life, an irresistibly candid and magical travelogue of soul-seeking and self-healing

The spring of 2017 should have been the greatest time of Cat Marnell’s life. She was 34 and living the New York glamour life downtown, with a thriving career and a best-selling memoir. Instead, it was one of the worst. She’d gone through a protracted and traumatic breakup, nearly run out of money, and, during a month-long binge, "done something horrible" to herself that she couldn’t undo.

Her troubles mounting, Marnell makes a radically simple choice: She decides to leave her problems behind. She puts her belongings into storage and uses the last of her book advance to buy a one-way plane ticket to Europe. For the next four months, Marnell is a woman on the move. With nothing but a suitcase (Sammy) and a bag of wigs to her name, and no agenda other than to follow her heart (and maybe the Libertines' Pete Doherty), Marnell embarks on a profound personal journey, from late-night "Wizard Walks" in mysterious cities to almost drowning in a river - all while learning to face down her demons.

Whimsical, infectious, and utterly life-affirming, Self-Tanner for the Soul reminds us all of the life-changing magic of running away.

©2019 Cat Marnell (P)2019 Audible Originals, LLC.
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Only slightly less bonkers than her first book

If, like me, you loved How to Murder Your Life, you'll also race through this travel diary, which sees crazy Cat and her pillowcase full of wigs storming through Europe in search of twinkly lights, white wine and castles. It will make you equally excited and terrified about the prospect of travelling alone as a woman.

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Excellent!

She does it again, such an interesting interesting and intelligent way to write about your life. Literally finished in one day. So funny

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Looooove it. More please from Cat Marnell!

The ultimate hot mess and a brilliant audiobook narrator. This made me want to pack my bags, ignore my problems and go travelling around Europe for several months.

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Enjoyable

Excellent travelogue. I loved How to murder your life and this is lighter but very entertaining. Marnell has a unique voice.

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Really enjoyed this unique audiobook

I loved how to murder your life, and also loved this! I am a female who does the solo travel thing too, so was good to get some advice from a fellow lady wanderer X

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love cat marnell

I'd never heard of cat marnell untill this week and I have binged two of her books. I love her honesty and humour. this is a wonderful travel book and you really experience every moment with her. can't wait to hear more from Cat

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Good to hear Cats voice again!


It is good to hear Cats voice again! Its great to see that she is so much better!

This isn't a self help book or a travel guide. This more of a Wizard trying to remember how to be a Wizard! Lessons for all of us

Found the book to be quite sad, Cat seems so lonely at times. Don't let that put you off though! She is learning how to live with herself again! No real joy without sacrifice, and she is totally grateful for being alive and on this trip!

Highly recommend if you loved how to murder your life! You will defo enjoy hearing about Cat's adventure through Europe!

Wish there was more! Can't wait for her next book! Filled with joy knowing she's doing better in life!

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it felt like I was there

it was an interesting recount of a lost girl finding herself, whilst getting lost in Europe

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Made me cry (in a good way)

Incredibly vivid descriptions and intimate tone from someone (you think) you know. Cat’s unique perspective and impressions of the places she visits combined with what I already knew about her from previous publications (especially her book) creates a very special blend of melancholy and optimism. I appreciated the slightly camp tone of voice with which she read. All in all very much recommend.

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OK bear with me here...

so. this is my 2nd time attempting this book. 1st time I read it I was massively disappointed. HTMYL was an incredible piece of writing. this is fragmented, frustrating, boring in lots of parts, feels ill thought through, repetitive, and really probably did not deserve to be a book. HOWEVER, I tried again and I reflected on what I was reading. this is Marnell in the midst of a somewhat grey place. not totally black but grey, not marnell with the benefit of distance consideration editing and insightful reflection as with HTMYL. this is authentic to the place marnell is in whilst she is having this experience. it is fragmented, it is confused, it is repetitive, but it is also raw, uncut, with intermittent bits of sparkle embedded deep in the bedrock, which need to be mined. it is out there for us to take as we find it. on re reading this I took a different attitude to my 1st reading. mad genius is what it is, did every piece of stand up richard prior made hit the mark? no, but when it did it was phenomenal. as Kanye once said, "y'all want the genius but y'all don't want to deal with the crazy" and that, I feel, is what we must do here. I believe this chick could be, as she has been called before, the hot bukowski of our age, and we need to let her keep writing and revel in the flashes of genius as and when they come. i reckon one day literary students will be carrying out critical studies of marnells writing, and this will have its bemused place in her cannon. I think self tanner for the soul is actually a wildly genius metaphor, it's not about 'finding oneself" whilst travelling or healing the soul, self tanner an inexpensive 'fake' quick fix that makes one look, if not feel, better for a very short time but ultimately doesn't actually fix anything and looks a state whilst it wears off. it's exactly the title this adventure should have.

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