Half of a Yellow Sun

**DREAM COUNT, the searing new bestselling novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is out now!**

THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER OF WINNERS

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'

A literary masterpiece DAILY MAIL

An immense achievement OBSERVER

In 1960s Nigeria, three lives intersect. Ugwu works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic lover, the lecturer. And Richard, a shy Englishman, is in thrall to Olannas enigmatic twin sister. Amongst the horror of Nigerias civil war, loyalties are tested as they are pulled apart and thrown together in ways none of them imagined.

Winner of the Womens Prize for Fiction, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies masterpiece is a novel about race, class and the end of colonialism  and the ways in which love can complicate everything.

A gorgeous, pitiless account of love, violence and betrayal TIME

Vividly written, thrumming with life  a remarkable novel JOYCE CAROL OATES

Adichie entwines love and politics to a degree rarely achieved by novelists ELLE