A Very Nice Girl

Imogen Crimp

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A bitingly honest, darkly funny debut about love, sex, power and desire, by a major new British talent

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.

Review

This is a haunting, bleakly compelling debut ... An unflinching study of male-female power dynamics, grimly plausible ... A deftly structured commercial literary debut by a writer of promise ― SUNDAY TIMES

An absorbing debut about sex and power ... This gripping debut about an opera singer's relationship with an older man explores issues of financial and sexual inequality ― GUARDIAN

This promising debut charts the edgy relationship of a young woman and older man... Crimp's prose is elegant and witty... a precursor to great things from an interesting new voice in fiction ― THE TIMES

Tender, devastating, witty. And deeply true. Sweetbitter meets Normal People -- MEG MASON

Wonderful ... A beautifully written examination of the psychology of sex, power, ambition and love and it's particularly brilliant on being insecure about who you are

― DAILY MAIL

In A Very Nice Girl, Imogen Crimp explores complicated relationships, the creative life, and the challenges of living in London in your twenties, with precision and subtlety. Touching on feminism, power, finances, and the pleasures and dangers of a new relationship, this book is an assured debut -- CLAIRE FULLER

Fans of Fleabag will find lots to like here in this tale of a young woman who needs to get the hell out of her own way

― RED

British newcomer Imogen Crimp delivers a witty tale of finance and romance

― VOGUE, BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2022

Meg Mason called it "tender, devastating and witty. And deeply true... Sweetbitter meets Normal People" ― SUNDAY TIMES STYLE, CULT BOOKS FOR SPRING

About the Author

Imogen Crimp has an MA in contemporary literature from UCL, where she specialised in female modernist writers. After university, she initially trained to be an opera singer, studying at a conservatoire. She lives and works in London.

Podrobnosti

Autor	Imogen Crimp
Vydavatel	Bloomsbury
Jazyk	anglicky
Vazba	měkká
Počet stran	352
Formát	13,1 × 19,8 cm
EAN	9781526628916
Rok vydání	2023
Edice	Současná beletrie