A very nice girl

Crimp, Imogen

£9.99

Anna is struggling to afford life in London as she trains to be a singer. During the day, she vies to succeed against her course mates with their discreet but inexhaustible streams of cultural capital and money, and in the evening she sings jazz at a bar in the City to make ends meet. It’s there that she meets Max, a financier fourteen years older than her. Over the course of one winter, Anna’s intoxication oscillates between her hard-won moments on stage, where she can zip herself into the skin of her characters, and nights spent with Max in his glass-walled flat overlooking the city. But Anna’s fledgling career demands her undivided attention, and increasingly – whether he necessarily wills it or not – so does Max.

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Publish Date: 09/02/2023

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**A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR****A GRAZIA BOOK OF THE YEAR****SELECTED FOR MALALA’S BOOK CLUB**’Tender, devastating, witty. And deeply true. Sweetbitter meets Normal People‘ MEG MASON, author of SORROW AND BLISS‘Haunting and bleakly compelling … A writer of promise’ SUNDAY TIMES‘An absorbing debut about sex and power’ GUARDIAN‘Elegant and witty … A precursor to great things’ THE TIMES‘One of the buzziest debut novels this spring’ VOGUE_____________________________________________________________________________Anna is struggling to afford life in London as she trains to be a singer. During the day, she vies to succeed against her course mates with their discreet but inexhaustible streams of cultural capital and money, and in the evening she sings jazz at a bar in the City to make ends meet. Here she meets Max, a financier fourteen years older than her. Over the course of one winter, Anna’s intoxication oscillates between her hard-won moments on stage, where she can zip herself into the skin of her characters, and nights spent with Max in his glass-walled flat overlooking the city. But Anna’s fledgling career demands her undivided attention, and increasingly – whether he necessarily wills it or not – so does Max?_____________________________________________________________________________‘Elegant and witty … A precursor to great things’ THE TIMES‘A beautifully written examination of the psychology of sex, power, ambition and love’ DAILY MAIL

Additional information

Weight 246 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 24 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

352

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K