A Very Nice Girl

Beschreibung

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BETTY TRASK PRIZE 2023**<BR>**A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR**<BR>**A GRAZIA BOOK OF THE YEAR**<BR>**SELECTED FOR MALALA'S BOOK CLUB**<BR><BR>'Tender, devastating, witty. And deeply true. Sweetbitter meets Normal People' MEG MASON, author of SORROW AND BLISS<BR>'Haunting and bleakly compelling ... A writer of promise' SUNDAY TIMES<BR>'An absorbing debut about sex and power' GUARDIAN<BR>'Elegant and witty ...

A precursor to great things' THE TIMES<BR>'One of the buzziest debut novels this spring' VOGUE<BR><BR>_____________________________________________________________________________<BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>But Anna's fledgling career demands her undivided attention, and increasingly - whether he necessarily wills it or not - so does Max.<BR><BR>_____________________________________________________________________________<BR><BR>'Elegant and witty ...

A precursor to great things' THE TIMES<BR>'A beautifully written examination of the psychology of sex, power, ambition and love' DAILY MAIL

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