LOW FLAT RATE AUST-WIDE $9.90 DELIVERY INFO

Close Notification

Your cart does not contain any items

$49.99

Hardback

Forthcoming
Pre-Order now

QTY:

English
Fourth Estate Ltd
04 March 2025
'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
By:  
Imprint:   Fourth Estate Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 240mm,  Width: 159mm,  Spine: 40mm
Weight:   640g
ISBN:   9780008685737
ISBN 10:   0008685738
Pages:   416
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into more than 55 languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and Financial Times. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; Half of a Yellow Sun, which was the recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Winner of Winners” award; Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck; the essays We Should All Be Feminists, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, and Notes on Grief; and Mama’s Sleeping Scarf, a book for children. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.

Reviews for Dream Count

‘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


See Also