- Published: 24 June 2025
- ISBN: 9781529933635
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 384
- RRP: $22.99
Jaded

















- Published: 24 June 2025
- ISBN: 9781529933635
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 384
- RRP: $22.99
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
Ela Lee has crafted a novel that's compulsive, rousing and raw. JADED is a dizzying debut about power, race, consent, entitlement, and so much more
Chloë Ashby, author of WET PAINT
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
Clever, insightful, poignant
A.J. West
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
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
A gripping read - in parts harrowing and uncomfortable, but also brilliantly empowering. And underneath it all, a love letter to female friendship. Highly recommended!
Emily Koch, author of WHAT JULY KNEW
A sensitive, nuanced and compelling exploration of trauma, race, identity and consent. Ela Lee is a writer to watch.
Mahi Cheshire
A raw, compulsive and nuanced novel about identity, race and consent
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Moving
Cosmo
This raw, dark novel explores racism, class and sexism and you'll want to savour every word on every page
Refinery 29
One of 2024's hottest reads
Sunday Times
Authentic
Daily Mail
Ela Lee is a remarkable new voice in fiction. I tore through JADED – it made me laugh, cry and really bloody furious
Stacey Halls
Bold ... A tightly-wound, claustrophobic unravelling of one woman that is one of the year’s most thoughtful reads
Harper’s Bazaar
JADED is brilliant and funny and moving all at once. I loved how Ela used the assault to crack open all the faultlines in Jade’s life, with Kit and with her work and with her parents. Despite the heartbreak, such violence can also show us our own strength and beauty
Rosie Price
Jaded is a bold, important novel about privilege and power. It doesn’t shy away from hard truths. A wonderful thing, when fiction has the courage to leave the reader with questions, thoughts, and feelings, instead of giving simplified answers
Jenny Mustard
An extremely accomplished debut that covers a difficult topic, at times delicately, at times unflinchingly, and always accessible. We have either been this Jade or know someone like Jade, and the way Ela builds her narrative is expertly done
Poorna Bell
JADED is that rarest of things: a compelling page-turner that is also unafraid to challenge. With its nuanced and complex exploration of consent portrayed through the lens of gender, race and class, it is as painfully urgent as it is timeless
Wiz Wharton
Jaded is so nuanced, assured, and utterly devastating it’s hard to believe it’s Ela Lee’s debut. Lee fearlessly takes on the impossible, infuriating double standards women are held to in our society, and undeniable feminine rage simmers under every sentence of her expertly crafted prose
Layne Fargo, author of THE FAVOURITES