Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Publishing:4th Mar '25
£20.00
This title is due to be published on 4th March, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
A searing new novel by the best-selling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists
'Reads like a feminist War and Peace. A magnificent novel' THE TIMES ‘A complex, multi-layered beauty of a book. Extraordinary’ NEW STATESMAN'Reads like a feminist War and Peace. A magnificent novel' THE TIMES ‘A complex, multi-layered beauty of a book. Extraordinary’ NEW STATESMAN
A publishing event ten years in the making – a searing, exquisite new novel by the best-selling 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' TELEGRAPH
CHOSEN 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
‘A big noisy novel that covers lots of issues … Dream Count reads like a feminist War and Peace. It is an account of the war waged against women — by society, yes, but also by their own bodies. Suffused with truth, wit and compassion, this is a magnificent novel that understands the messiness of human motivation and is courageous enough to ask difficult questions. It made me feel frustrated about the world but very good about the state of fiction’ The Times
'This is a complex, multi-layered beauty of a book. It is deeply and richly feminist. It explores big themes – misogyny, masculinity, race, colonialism, cultural relativism, the abuse of power, both personal and institutional – but it does so subtly, almost imperceptibly … Dream Count is an extraordinary novel. Please let it not be another decade until Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie returns once more' Nicola Sturgeon, New Statesman
'Luxuriously layered. It’s the return of a literary titan' Telegraph
‘Adichie electrifies her depictions of each character with stinging details and lacerating social critiques to striking, hilarious and heartbreaking effect. Every aspect of this transfixing, intimate and astute group portrait is ablaze with scorching insights into the maddening absurdities and injustices that continue to plague women’s lives. Adichie’s magnificently vital, sharply forthright novel will be one of the year’s most sought after and resounding titles’ Starred Booklist review
‘Love, death, motherhood – it’s all here, and few can handle it as capably as Adichie’ GQ
‘The major publication milestone of 2025’ Observer
‘Expect everyone to be talking about this one’ Independent
‘As finely constructed and evocatively realised as the rest of Adichie’s memorable work’ Harper’s Bazaar
‘The book we've all been waiting for. Expect the emotional poignancy and astute observations that makes Adichie such a powerful writer. Ten years in the making and worth every minute of waiting!’ Elle
ISBN: 9780008685737
Dimensions: 240mm x 159mm x 40mm
Weight: 640g
416 pages