02216cam a2200301 4500 759856430 TxAuBib 20220106120000.0 210507s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021021334 9781250792778 hbk. $26.99 1250792770 hbk. $26.99 (OCoLC)1246726544 DLC eng rda DLC OCLCO OCLCF LJW RNL CG4 IK2 HBP TCH YU6 VP@ TxGR TxAuBib Crimp, Imogen, 1989-, author. A very nice girl [Book] : a novel / Imogen Crimp. First U.S. edition. New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2022. 321 pages ; 25 cm. "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"-- Provided by publisher. 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. 20220106. Young women Fiction. Singers Fiction. May-December romances Fiction. Psychological abuse Fiction. RV8