
A Very Nice Girl
A Novel
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Narrado por:
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Olivia Forrest
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Imogen Crimp
"Tender, devastating, witty. And deeply true. Sweetbitter meets Normal People.” (Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss)
For listeners of Sweetbitter and Luster, 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 knows she has talent, but she’s always felt out of place in the world of opera. A first-year student at a prestigious London conservatoire, she lives in a grim series of rented rooms with her friend Laurie, a sharp-tongued waitress and aspiring writer. Her days are devoted to highly competitive auditions and long, straining rehearsals. At night, she sings jazz in an expensive bar, relying on her popularity with the inebriated businessmen to make rent and stay afloat alongside her wealthy peers.
It’s there that Anna meets Max, a charismatic financier in the midst of a divorce who, at 38, is 14 years Anna’s senior. Reluctantly impressed by Max - his stillness, his careful detachment - Anna soon finds herself desperate to hold his attention. As winter pervades the city, Anna begins a dangerous oscillation between hard-won moments on stage, where she can zip herself into the skin of her characters, and nightly stays at Max’s glass-walled flat. But as Anna’s fledgling career begins to demand her undivided attention, so too does Max, a situation that dangerously compounds until Anna must decide who - or what - she wants.
Intoxicatingly propulsive and written with lacerating precision, Imogen Crimp’s A Very Nice Girl is a clever, sexually charged portrait of a young woman on the teetering edge of adulthood. With heartrending authenticity and an arresting voice, it lays bare how we consciously shape our identities in the pursuit of power, desire, and a place to belong.
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Plausible.
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Enjoyed
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Meh...
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Good story &performance
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love it
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There are so many takeaways from this book that I can apply to my situation. The narrator was the perfect choice, she does an amazing job to
So well written!
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Anna is a frustrating character--intentionally so, I believe--and developed with real depth. You want her to wake up and focus, but you understand why she seems incapable of doing so. She's a talented singer, and the sections of the novel devoted to the world of opera, singing lessons, rehearsals, and performance set the novel apart from the more generic "university" settings of some writers to whom she's been compared.
Olivia Forrest gives a flawless reading/performance of Anna's voice, capturing her youth and emotional fragility perfectly.
I did find the book longer than it needed to be to tell what is, in the end, a fairly simple story of a relationship. The writing is admirably vivd and detailed, but some scenes repeat information we already know or take too long to make their point. Even so, Crimp is one to watch, and I was happy to have read this.
Strong Writing and Flawless Narration
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Loved it. So relatable, with astute observations of social behavior
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