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  • By: Imogen Crimp
  • Narrated by: Olivia Forest
  • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (13 ratings)

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A Very Nice Girl

By: Imogen Crimp
Narrated by: Olivia Forest
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Publisher's Summary

Bloomsbury presents A Very Nice Girl by Imogen Crimp, read by Olivia Forest.

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 14 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....

©2022 Imogen Crimp (P)2022 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Critic Reviews

"In A Very Nice Girl, Imogen Crimp explores complicated relationships, the creative life, and the challenges of living in London in your 20s, with precision and subtlety. Touching on feminism, power, finances and the pleasures and dangers of a new relationship, this book is an assured debut." (Claire Fuller)

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

"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)

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