Fourteen 12 months previous committed trombonist, nonconformist and ex-Londoner, Alice Gordon, lands up dwelling within the jap suburbs of Melbourne, along with her lately widowed mom after her BBC journalist father is killed on task within the heart East. Alice is resigned to the truth that she is going to by no means event happiness back - nor will she make neighbors - so does every little thing in her energy to fend off these trying to get close to her or to enhance her lot in lifestyles. She is very repelled by means of boys, popular culture, meat, authority and lightweight leisure at the television tube. Her mom, ex-BBC tv information researcher, Peggy Gordon, has develop into a determined, functioning under the influence of alcohol, who by means of day runs a espresso stand at Melbourne Airport and by way of evening reverts to early life, leaving Alice to seem after her and the house.

Playing jazz trombone is the affection of Alice’s lifestyles and she or he is completely obsessed by way of it. She sees it as her meal price ticket out of Australia and again to the united kingdom the place she recalls being satisfied once-upon-a-time. Her obsession with the brass tool ends up in a degree of skill that competitors the other participant of her age and for this reason she is selected to add as soloist within the Victorian Bands Championship Competitions, representing her neighborhood band of Nunawading. issues aren't going so good in class notwithstanding, the place she has been suspended for rescuing a cage choked with ravenous lab rats. She makes a decision to hide this data from her mom, fearing adequately, that she can be avoided from enjoying within the band competitions in Bendigo.

Alice is ultimately stuck out while she and her mom are noticed by way of the college headmaster on the neighborhood cinema one night. while Peggy bans her from competing, Alice runs clear of domestic. the subsequent weeks locate her busking lower than a bridge through the Yarra river, jamming with a certified tremendous band at an outside jazz pageant, putting out with Hari Krishnas, staying at a B&B on St Kilda seashore or even cross-dressing.

As the road-trip involves an finish, Alice ultimately will get to compete in Bendigo, the place she performs so brilliantly that she is headhunted by means of her longstanding hero, global well-known trombonist, James Morrison.

Nice enjoying for a woman, is an inspirational, tragic and wryly humorous event tale. yet, most significantly, it celebrates the person. whereas so much young children spend their days attempting to conform, no matter if it’s merely via rebelling, Alice is decided to be herself. in spite of everything, this personality trait takes her the entire solution to the top!