num_pages: 218
description: Living with her two best friends in the London suburbs, toiling as a junior editor at an obscure trade magazine, Agnes manages to give a convincing performance that everything is alright. But her roommates are acting strangely, her boyfriend's strict schedule is becoming a nuisance, and the world in general seems increasingly out of her control. In great despair, Agnes decides to make it her business to set things straight.
language: English
title: Saving Agnes
titlecomplete: Saving Agnes
genres: Literary Fiction, Literature, Fiction, Coming Of Age, Contemporary, 20th Century, Feminism, Canada, British Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 1067
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Whitbread Award
category: First Novel
publisher: Picador USA