A Very Nice Girl

Paperback | 3 February 2022

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'Tender, devastating, witty. And deeply true. Sweetbitter meets Normal People' Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss

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.

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…

About the Author

Imogen Crimp studied English at Cambridge, followed by an MA in contemporary literature from University College London, where she specialized in female modernist writers. After university, she briefly studied singing at a London conservatoire. She was born in 1989 and lives in London. A Very Nice Girl is her debut novel.

Industry Reviews

'Touching on feminism, power, finances and the pleasures and dangers of a new relationship, this book is an assured debut'
Claire Fuller, author of the Women's Prize-shortlisted Unsettled Ground

'Imogen Crimp captures the glittering thrill of being young and choosing your own life with a dark, unflinching undercurrent of desire, power and control'
Jessica Andrews, author of Saltwater

'A blazing, darkly funny debut that captures a young woman's search to find herself ... It has an honesty and tenderness that will stay with me for a long time'
Rachel Joyce

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