TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crimp,Imogen
TI  - A very nice girl: a novel 
SN  - 9781250792778
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New York
PB  - Henry Holt and Company
KW  - Young women
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Singers
KW  - May-December romances
KW  - Psychological abuse
KW  - Thrillers (Fiction)
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Romance fiction
KW  - Novels
N2  - "A razor-sharp debut novel about an ambitious young opera singer caught between devotion to her craft and an all-consuming affair with an older man"--; 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
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