Ela Lee is a remarkable new voice in fiction. I tore through JADED – it made me laugh, cry and really bloody furious
Stacey Halls
JADED is a thoughtful, hard-hitting exploration of race, identity, and the rippling effects of sexual assault. Ela Lee writes with an urgency and clarity that will have you hooked until the last page.
Cecile Pin, author of WANDERING SOULS
A raw, compulsive and nuanced novel about identity, race and consent
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One of 2024's hottest reads
Sunday Times
This raw, dark novel explores racism, class and sexism and you'll want to savour every word on every page
Refinery 29
Ela Lee is an electrifying new voice, and this is an ambitious gut-punch of a novel. Like I May Destroy You meets Industry, it’s a witty, nuanced and thought-provoking interrogation of attitudes towards race, power and consent
Bobby Palmer, author of ISAAC AND THE EGG
Wonderfully multi-faceted and emotionally compelling
Jessica George, author of MAAME
Jaded is a sharp, bold and compulsively readable story of power, money, sex and survival. Ela Lee writes with utter clarity and heartbreaking insight about the cost of survival in cut-throat corporate environments and about the gray space between complicity and compromise. Urgent and necessary, this is a book that will take up space in your heart and mind long after the last page
Cecilia Rabess, author of EVERYTHING’S FINE
A tightly-wound, claustrophobic unravelling of one woman that is one of the year’s most thoughtful reads
Harper’s Bazaar
Brutal but sadly realistic, JADED is a clarion call against the resounding silence of corporate law which has gone untouched and unmoved by #metoo. Quietly devastating
Ella King, author of BAD FRUIT