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‘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 'Luxuriously layered. It’s the return of a literary titan' Telegraph ‘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 ‘Adichie's writing is always exciting and relevant, with her latest novel about to cement her place as a literary great’ Radio Times ‘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 Praise for Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘Adichie uses language with relish. She infuses her English with a robust poetry’ The Times 'A writer endowed with the gift of ancient storytellers’ Chinua Achebe ‘[Adichie is] the rare novelist to become a public intellectual – as well as a defining voice on race and gender for the digital age’ New York Times Magazine ‘Adichie entwines love and politics to a degree rarely achieved by novelists. That is what great fiction does – it simultaneously devours and ennobles, and in its freely acknowledged invention comes to be truer than the facts upon which it is built’Elle ‘Adichie creates indelible characters who jump off the page and into your head and heart’ USA Today Expand reviews