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Book SynopsisSelected for Malala's Book Club
Imogen Crimp's enjoyable debut novel... is an all-too-real reminder of what it is to be a woman in your 20s... - The New York Times
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, impossible to read-and before long An
