Dream Count

A searing new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Americanah; Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025.

‘Dream Count reads like a feminist War and Peace. 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’ Sunday Times

‘Quintessential Adichie: ambitious, astute and powered by an accumulation of feather-light sentences that build to devastating weight. Masterly’ Guardian

‘This is a book that will make your heart ache, but in the best possible way, and it cements Adichie’s reputation as a storyteller of both heft and readability’ Good Housekeeping

'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

'Deeply compelling' Washington Post

‘A big book, richly marbled with criss-crossing storylines … powered by the simple but evergreen thrill of time spent in the company of flesh and blood characters lavishly imagined. It was worth the wait'Observer

‘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. Magnificently vital’ Starred Booklist review

‘Love, death, motherhood – it’s all here, and few can handle it as capably as Adichie’ GQ

‘As finely constructed and evocatively realised as the rest of Adichie’s memorable work’ Harper’s Bazaar