Good Intentions

'Fans of Dolly Alderton and Diana Reid will delight in and welcome this new Australian voice to the genre' Books+Publishing

THE BIGGEST STORY WAS ALWAYS THE ONE BETWEEN THEM

In the cramped basement office of their university newspaper, Jake and Nadia break a huge story that exposes a decade of institutional corruption. In the quieter hours, they also fall in love.

Then Nadia leaves.

A decade later, she returns from New York, once a fast-rising finance hotshot, now exiled after a deal gone wrong. Back in Sydney, Jake has forged a reputation as a crusading reporter whose by-line regularly brings down the rich and powerful.

Battlelines are drawn when they're each pulled into the orbit of a biotech visionary whose startup becomes Nadia's big break and the target 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 asks if it is possible to be a good person in a morally grey world, and what happens when someone you once loved with your whole heart threatens to topple everything you've built.

Praise for Good Intentions:

'What starts as a campus love story catches fire and blazes into a full-scale reckoning of corporate greed. A coming-of-age story for the late capitalist hellscape. Easy to read and hard to sit with. Set it for your book club and watch the sparks fly.' - Bri Lee, author of Eggshell Skull and Seed

'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

'Come for the love story, stay for the gripping investigative journalism. Good Intentions is a sharp and smart exploration about the lasting impression of first love, ambition, power and morality. It's an achingly beautiful representation of what happens when the person you love is the person you can't be with. Where do you draw the line between the people you love and your dreams?' -Joshua Hortinela, author of Hate You to Love You

'Compelling, smart and sexy: an unflinching glimpse behind the curtain of what it takes to keep the capitalist machine alive - and what it costs to fight it!' - Eleanor Kirk, author of Very Impressive For Your Age

'An emotionally deft debut. Wu transports us through time, unravelling the fickleness of hearts and economies with the same dexterity.' - Vivian Pham, author of The Coconut Children