Good Intentions
$34.99
Normal People meets Industry in this contemporary love story of two brilliant young people whose ambitions and ideals come between them.
Their first kiss was not without technical shortcomings. His glasses bumped against the bridge of her nose and her back pressed uncomfortably against the edge of a filing cabinet. But as she inhaled the scent of his aftershave, Nadia was struck with the kind of certainty that only visits upon twenty-two-year-olds. Somehow she knew that for as long as she lived, there would never be another kiss as perfect or as profound.
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 Australian 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.
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