DREAM COUNT

Reads like a feminist War and Peace. A magnificent novel' THE SUNDAY TIMES‘A complex multi-layered beauty of a book. Extraordinary’ NEW STATESMANA publishing event ten years in the making – a searing exquisite new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists – the story of four women and their loves longings and desires.‘The major publication milestone of 2025’ OBSERVER'The return of a literary titan' TELEGRAPHCHOSEN AS A SUNDAY TIMES GUARDIAN OBSERVER FINANCIAL TIMES INDEPENDENT TELEGRAPH GQ and COSMOPOLITAN BOOK OF 2025.Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora her best friend is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until ― betrayed and brokenhearted ― she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Omelogor Chiamaka’s bold outspoken cousin is a financial powerhouse in Nigeria who begins to question how well she knows herself. And Kadiatou Chiamaka’s housekeeper is proudly raising her daughter in America – but faces an unthinkable hardship that threatens all she has worked to achieve.In Dream Count Adichie trains her fierce eye on these women in a sparkling transcendent novel that takes up the very nature of love itself. Is true happiness ever attainable or is it just a fleeting state? And how honest must we be with ourselves in order to love and to be loved? A trenchant reflection on the choices we make and those made for us on daughters and mothers on our interconnected world Dream Count pulses with emotional urgency and poignant unflinching observations on the human heart in language that soars with beauty and power. It confirms Adichie’s status as one of the most exciting and dynamic writers on the literary landscape.‘Expect everyone to be talking about this one’ INDEPENDENT