"Tender, devastating, witty. And deeply true. Sweetbitter meets Normal People.” ― Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss. 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 doesn’t 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. He’s everything she’s not―rich, tailored to precision...
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (February 8, 2022) Pages: 336 pages ISBN-10: 1250792770 ISBN-13: 978-1250792778 ASIN: B092T8ZXDY
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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.