Jaded
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  • Published: 8 February 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529198270
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400

Jaded

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Paperback
24 Jun 2025
Tr. Paperback
6 Feb 2024
EBook
8 Feb 2024
EBook
8 Feb 2024
Hardback
8 Mar 2024
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For readers of SUCH A FUN AGE, REALLY GOOD, ACTUALLY, and QUEENIE, this is a refreshingly sharp and honest debut novel about how one shocking event can upend a person's world, and asks, what would you have done in the same situation?

Jade isn't even my real name. Jade began as my Starbucks name, because all children of immigrants have a Starbucks name.

Jade has done all the right things.

She's curated herself to fit right in at her law firm, but tells herself she has no choice.
She's with a man who loves her, but she isn't always herself around him.
She's made her Omma and Baba proud, but resents that they can't properly understand her.

Jade is perfectly in control of her life.

Until one terrible night unravels Jade's carefully constructed world, leaving her wondering who she truly is.
  • Published: 8 February 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529198270
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
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About the author

Ela Lee

Ela Lee was born in 1995 and is a British-Korean-Turkish writer. She studied Law at the University of Oxford and went on to practise as a City lawyer. In 2021, during the global pandemic, Ela began work on her debut novel, JADED, which explores themes of consent, race, and identity. She lives in London, with her partner and their mini Aussie Shepherd.

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