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Nina Blount

Nina Blount loves Adam but won't marry without money, and her pragmatic streak keeps colliding with the giddy whirl of parties she can't quite quit.

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Also known as Miss Blount, Anne Opalthorpe, Miss Nina Blount

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Adam's love interest, present at parties and central to the romantic farce.

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Nina is a Bright Young Thing from an eccentric county family, engaged to Adam, then to Ginger, then back again, depending on whose prospects look better that week. She is affectionate, unsentimental, and clear-eyed about the economics of marriage in a way Adam finds both maddening and irresistible. Her wavering loyalty drives the novel's central romantic question: whether love can survive the relentless social machinery of the season.

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Relationship types

Romantic
Social
Family
Other

Character groups

Social Circle Core
Protagonist
Bright Young People

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Narrative arc

Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.

Setup
Escalation
Breaking point
Aftermath
Closing

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Relationships

Adam Fenwick-Symes
romantic · ambivalent
Adam and Nina are engaged in a chaotic, on-again-off-again romance marked by… How this plays out →
Darling
social · positive
Ginger Littlejohn
romantic · ambivalent
Colonel Blount
family · ambivalent
Adam Fenwick-Symes
romantic · ambivalent
Adam and Nina are engaged in a chaotic, on-again-off-again romance marked by… How this plays out →
Adam Fenwick-Symes
romantic · ambivalent
Adam and Nina are engaged in a chaotic, on-again-off-again romance marked by… How this plays out →
Darling
social · positive
Colonel Blount
family · ambivalent
Ginger Littlejohn
romantic · ambivalent
Ginger Littlejohn
romantic · ambivalent
Darling
social · positive

Adam Fenwick-Symes
Adam and Nina are engaged in a chaotic, on-again-off-again romance marked by misunderstandings, financial woes, and mutual affection despite constant obstacles.
Darling
Darling is a fashionable, idle socialite who flirts with Nina and moves in the same Bright Young People circles, but their connection is superficial.
Ginger Littlejohn
Ginger is infatuated with Nina and pursues her romantically, but she treats him with amused indifference, preferring Adam.
Colonel Blount
Colonel Blount is Nina's neglectful, eccentric father who loves her in his own distracted way but fails to provide stability.
Adam Fenwick-Symes
Adam and Nina are engaged in a chaotic, on-again-off-again romance marked by misunderstandings, financial woes, and mutual affection despite constant obstacles.
Adam Fenwick-Symes
Adam and Nina are engaged in a chaotic, on-again-off-again romance marked by misunderstandings, financial woes, and mutual affection despite constant obstacles.
Darling
Darling is a fashionable, idle socialite who flirts with Nina and moves in the same Bright Young People circles, but their connection is superficial.
Colonel Blount
Colonel Blount is Nina's neglectful, eccentric father who loves her in his own distracted way but fails to provide stability.
Ginger Littlejohn
Ginger is infatuated with Nina and pursues her romantically, but she treats him with amused indifference, preferring Adam.
Ginger Littlejohn
Ginger is infatuated with Nina and pursues her romantically, but she treats him with amused indifference, preferring Adam.
Darling
Darling is a fashionable, idle socialite who flirts with Nina and moves in the same Bright Young People circles, but their connection is superficial.

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Vile Bodies
Adam's love interest, present at parties and central to the romantic farce.
Chapter II
Receives Adam's phone call; agrees to meet him at Archie Schwert's party.
IV
Present at Archie Schwert's party; her broken engagement is mentioned as lacking publicity value.
V
Spends the night with Adam; reveals the cheque signed 'Charlie Chaplin' is worthless.
VI
Sits with Adam, expresses boredom; Lady Throbbing notes she looks 'a little changed.'
VII
Lunches with Adam at Espinosa's; plans to marry him; accompanies him to the November Handicap.
VIII
Attends the airship party with Adam; talks with Adam about getting married and suggests he visit her father again.
IX
Speaks with Adam on the phone, offers to write his column with Ginger.
XI
Confesses the Major is bogus and she has no money, then calls back to announce her engagement to Ginger.
XII
Engaged to Ginger; her father loses all his money on a film; she meets Adam at the nursing home and admits she was once in love with him.
XIII
Nina is now Mrs. Littlejohn and participates in Christmas traditions with Adam and her father.
Happy Ending
Writes a letter to Adam from Doubting Hall, mentioning her pregnancy, Ginger's job, and various war news.

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