We’re excited to be giving away two copies of Good Intentions by Jessy Wu to our GrownUps members!
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About Good Intentions
Normal People meets Industry in this contemporary love story of two brilliant young people whose ambitions and ideals come between them.
In the cramped basement office of their university newspaper, Jake and Nadia learn to see the world, cutting their teeth on a story that exposes a decade of institutional corruption. In the quiet hours, they also find each other. Then Nadia leaves.
A decade later, she returns to Sydney, a corporate powerhouse who wears her competence like armour. Jake has since forged a reputation as a crusading journalist whose by-line has brought down careers and companies.
Battlelines are drawn when they’re each pulled into the orbit of Marjorie Ford, a biotech visionary who becomes Nadia’s big break and the centre of Jake’s latest investigation. As old wounds flare, both must decide how far they’ll go to come out on top.
Clear-eyed and taut, Good Intentions announces a blistering new voice in fiction, asking what it takes to stay true in a world that demands compromise, and what happens when the person who once saw you most clearly becomes the one who threatens to topple everything you’ve built.
“Relentless reading, I couldn’t put it down. Evocatively penned and a clever exploration of the cost of speaking truth to power. This is an arrival Australian fiction has waited too long for.” – Antoinette Lattouf, author of Women Who Win and How to Lose Friends and Influence White People
“Utterly unputdownable. Good Intentions weaves together the fascinating world of venture capital with a love story that proves first love never really leaves you. With razor-sharp observations on the complexities of human nature, some corporate espionage and a crusading journalist fighting the good fight, I was completely hooked.” – Karina May, author of That Island Feeling
About the Author
Jessy Wu is a writer and entrepreneur based in Sydney. She is the founder and Managing Director of Encour, a strategic communications agency that specialises in the tech sector. Previously, she was a venture capital investor in early-stage tech start-ups. She is a regular columnist for the Australian Financial Review, and her writing has appeared in Forbes, Crikey, Sydney Morning Herald, and Inflection Points. She co-hosts the Gen Z Explained podcast with her twenty-year-old colleague Danny Cash. She holds degrees in Philosophy and English Literature from the Australian National University.
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