A Very Nice Girl

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BETTY TRASK PRIZE 2023
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
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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.
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'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

Imogen Crimp