Jaded

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. <p><b><i>Jade isn't even my real name. Jade began as my Starbucks name because all children of immigrants have a Starbucks name.</i></b><br><br><b>Jade has done all the right things.</b><br><br>She's curated herself to fit right in at her law firm but tells herself she has no choice.<br>She's with a man who loves her but she isn't always herself around him.<br>She's made her Omma and Baba proud but resents that they can't properly understand her.<br><br>Jade is perfectly in control of her life.<br><br><b>Until one terrible night unravels Jade's carefully constructed world leaving her wondering who she truly is.</b></p> Wonderfully multi-faceted and emotionally compelling Jaded is a<b> sharp bold and compulsively readable </b>story of power money sex-and survival. <b>Ela Lee writes with utter clarity and heartbreaking insight</b> about the cost of survival in cut-throat corporate environments and about the gray space between complicity and compromise. <b>Urgent and necessary</b> this is<b> a book that will take up space in your heart and mind long after the last page</b>