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Dream Count

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Narrated by: Sandra Okuboyejo, A’rese Emokpae, Janina Edwards, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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READ BY CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE, SANDRA OKUBOYEJO, A'RESE EMOKPAE AND JANINA EDWARDS.

A 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.

‘Reads like a feminist War and Peace. A magnificent novel' THE SUNDAY TIMES

‘A complex, multi-layered beauty of a book. Extraordinary’ NEW STATESMAN

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

©2025 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (P)2025 Penguin Random House, LLC
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Loved this book so much!

I liked Omelogor’s character so much. Kadi’s as well. I have now gone on a tangent researching Strauss Kahn. Why do men rape?! “Nwanyi ibem” is such an igbo mum statement to make.

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Intertwined lives of women

Great stories from different perspectives, I kept wanting to shout at Kadiato and hug her at the same time.loved it.

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Brilliant and beautiful.

Such a perfect piece of fiction. I loved it. It was moving and insightful, beautifully written and read.

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Dreamcount

I loved this book from beginning to end. beautifully interwoven stories and characters. I loved the readers also for each of the different characters. My heart went out to Kadyatou (hope I've spelt that right). I really enjoyed the author's note at the end and I've read other of Adichie's novels too which I loved.

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Interesting

Amazing stories intertwined beautifully. Always triggers relatable memories. I enjoyed all the narrators with the varied accents and style of reading. I look forward to the next one!

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beautifully woven stories

the way the womens' lives interweave, elevate and support is the core of the book. I loved that the perspectives were uniquely female.

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One of the best books I have read.. characters stay with you for a long time

I loved the book.Nothing I disliked. Would have liked to see Men” s perspectives as well

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Worth the wait

We waited a long time for this release and it didn’t disappoint. Beautifully written characters who had depth and distinctiveness. Narration was excellent.

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A deeply relatable story

Thanks to my rich life growing up across the country and living among multicultural and religious settings;

I could relate to each character -

the Anambra settings
chia's mom uppityness and the attendant dislike from the women.
Chia's travel writing. self sabotage in love. idealist romantic views. kind heart & naivety

zikora's puritan outlook and shame in addition to confusion after kwame disappeared

flogging herself repeatedly wondering if she misjudged the real him

kadiatou was the typical muslim north I grew up in. consanguinity. shaming the woman for a man's action like why should she be ashamed because her cousin married another girl?

Omelogor; I moved around Abuja with her. attended those parties with my different friends groups, saw so many other hauwas. banking -insider details like the siphoning of funds, fictitious companies, political conduits, grants as loans to the upper social class knowing they would not be repaid, writing them off via provision for bad & doubtful debts, non-performing insider-related credits, arbitrary promotion of cohorts. her culture shock at America. seeing through the eyes of a tourist vs a resident

the overt and covert racisms in the West. The Kenyan tour guide's exasperation at the White woman questioning the modern toilet invention

I will read it again and again.

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Epic story telling

Chimamanda in her usual way tells us a beautiful story on navigating single hood and the challenges of dealing with expectations. A titan true and true !

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