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By (author) Crimp, Imogen

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BETTY TRASK PRIZE 2023**

**A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR**
**A GRAZIA BOOK OF THE YEAR**
**SELECTED FOR MALALA”S BOOK CLUB**

”Tender, devastating, witty. And deeply true. Sweetbitter meets Normal People” MEG MASON, author of SORROW AND BLISS
”Haunting and bleakly compelling … A writer of promise” SUNDAY TIMES
”An absorbing debut about sex and power” GUARDIAN
”Elegant and witty … A precursor to great things” THE TIMES
‘One of the buzziest debut novels this spring’ VOGUE

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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.

Here she meets Max, a financier fourteen 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…

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”Elegant and witty … A precursor to great things” THE TIMES
”A beautifully written examination of the psychology of sex, power, ambition and love” DAILY MAIL

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This is a haunting, bleakly compelling debut … An unflinching study of male-female power dynamics, grimly plausible … A deftly structured commercial literary debut by a writer of promise

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An absorbing debut about sex and power … This gripping debut about an opera singer’s relationship with an older man explores issues of financial and sexual inequality

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This promising debut charts the edgy relationship of a young woman and older man… Crimp’s prose is elegant and witty… a precursor to great things from an interesting new voice in fiction

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Tender, devastating, witty. And deeply true. Sweetbitter meets Normal People

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Wonderful … A beautifully written examination of the psychology of sex, power, ambition and love and it’s particularly brilliant on being insecure about who you are

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

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Fans of Fleabag will find lots to like here in this tale of a young woman who needs to get the hell out of her own way

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British newcomer Imogen Crimp delivers a witty tale of finance and romance

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Meg Mason called it “tender, devastating and witty. And deeply true… Sweetbitter meets Normal People”

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Crimp”s debut novel will perhaps earn the author comparisons to Sally Rooney, but A Very Nice Girl feels truly distinct … An alluring romance

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Brilliant

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Imogen Crimp captures the glittering thrill of being young and choosing your own life with a dark, unflinching undercurrent of desire, power and control

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