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Availability Label | Location | Shelfmark | Availability | Reservations |
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Central Branch | Fiction Crimp | On loan until: 25/Apr/24 |
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Title Statement | A very nice girl: a novel / Imogen Crimp. |
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Author | Crimp, Imogen, 1989- |
Publication | New York: Henry Holt and Company,2022. |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | 321 pages ; |
ISBN | 9781250792778 1250792770 |
Other Number | 4231046 |
Summary | 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 Anna is hooked, desperate to hold his attention, and determined to ignore the warning signs that this might be a toxic relationship. As Anna shuttles from grueling rehearsals to brutal auditions, she finds herself torn between two conflicting desires: the drive to nurture her fledgling singing career, which requires her undivided attention, and the longing for human connection. When the stakes increase, and the roles she's playing-- both on stage and off-- begin to feel all-consuming, Anna must reckon with the fact that, in carefully performing what's expected of her as a woman, she risks losing sight of herself completely. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Choice (Psychology)--Fiction |
Control (Psychology)--Fiction | |
Expectation (Psychology)--Fiction | |
May-December romances--Fiction | |
Opera--Fiction | |
Singers--Fiction | |
Young women--Fiction | |
By Location | London (England)--Fiction |
By Genre | Psychological fiction |