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**DREAM COUNT, the searing new bestselling novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is out now!** A haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes from the talented bestseller and award-winning author. A tale for our times DAILY MAIL ‘Immensely powerful’ THE TIMES The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili’s world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her fanatically religious father. Her life is regulated by schedules: prayer, sleep, study, prayer. When Nigeria is shaken by a military coup, Kambili’s father, involved mysteriously in the political crisis, sends her to live with her aunt. In this house, noisy and full of laughter, she discovers life and love – and a terrible, bruising secret deep within her family. This extraordinary debut novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’, is about the blurred lines between the old gods and the new, childhood and adulthood, love and hatred – the grey spaces in which truths are revealed and real life is lived. I could not put it down’ IRISH TIMES An intoxicating story that is at once distinctly feminine, African and universal OBSERVER