The Thing Around Your Neck

<p>**DREAM COUNT, the searing, exquisite new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is out now!**</p> <p>From the Women's Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun come twelve dazzling stories that turn a penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West.</p> <br> <br> <p>'Makes storytelling seem as easy as birdsong' TELEGRAPH</p> <p>'Writing of clarity and brilliance' GUARDIAN</p> <p>In 'A Private Experience', a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman whose dignity and faith force her to confront the realities and fears she's been pushing away.</p> <p>In 'Tomorrow Is Too Far', a woman unlocks the devastating secret that surrounds her brother's death.</p> <p>The young mother at the centre of 'Imitation' finds her comfortable life threatened when she learns that her husband back in Lagos has moved his mistress into their home.</p> <p>And the title story depicts the choking loneliness of a Nigerian girl who moves to an America that turns out to be nothing like the country she expected; though falling in love brings her desires nearly within reach, a death in her homeland forces her to re-examine them.</p> <p>Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow and longing, this collection is a resounding confirmation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's prodigious storytelling powers.</p> <p>'An elegant collection. From beginning to end the prose is serene and the characterization deft' TLS</p>