num_pages: 336
description: A bitingly honest darkly funny debut about ambition sex power and love Imogen Crimp's A Very Nice Girl cracks open the timeless questions of what it is to be young what it is to want to be wanted and what it is to find your calling but lose your way to it.Anna doesnt fit in. Not with her wealthy classmates at the selective London Conservatory where she unexpectedly wins a place after university not with the family she left behind and definitely not with Max a man she meets in the bar where she sings for cash. Hes everything shes notrich tailored to precision impossible to readand before long Anna is hooked desperate to hold his attention and determined to ignore the warning signs that this might be a toxic relationship.As Anna shuttles from grueling rehearsals to brutal auditions she finds herself torn between two conflicting desires: the drive to nurture her fledgling singing career which requires her undivided attention and the longing for human connection. When the stakes increase and the roles shes playingboth on stage and offbegin to feel all-consuming Anna must reckon with the fact that in carefully performing whats expected of her as a woman she risks losing sight of herself completely.Both exceedingly contemporary and classic A Very Nice Girl reminds us that even once we have taken possession of our destinies we still have the power to set all we hold dear on fire.
language: English
title: A Very Nice Girl
publisher: Henry Holt and Co.