A Very Nice Girl

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BETTY TRASK PRIZE 2023****A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR****A GRAZIA BOOK OF THE YEAR****SELECTED FOR MALALA'S BOOK CLUB**'Tender, devastating, witty. And deeply true. Sweetbitter meets Normal People' MEG MASON, author of SORROW AND BLISS'Haunting and bleakly compelling ... A writer of promise' SUNDAY TIMES'An absorbing debut about sex and power' GUARDIAN'Elegant and witty ... A precursor to great things' THE TIMES-One of the buzziest debut novels this spring- VOGUE_____________________________________________________________________________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. Here she meets Max, a financier fourteen years older than her. Over the course of one winter, Anna-s intoxication oscillates between her hard-wo