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‘Heartbreaking, funny, exquisitely written and, without doubt, a literary masterpiece and a classic’ Daily Mail

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‘Stunning. This novel is an immense achievement’ Observer

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‘A landmark novel. Adichie brings to history a lucid intelligence and compassion, and a heartfelt plea for memory’ Guardian

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'Vividly written, thrumming with life … a remarkable novel. In its compassionate intelligence as in its capacity for intimate portraiture, this novel is a worthy successor to such twentieth-century classics as Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River' Joyce Carol Oates

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'Here is a new writer endowed with the gift of ancient storytellers’ Chinua Achebe

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‘The character burrow into your marrow and mind, and you come to care for them deeply – something that is all too rare’ Daily Telegraph

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n ‘A sane and compassionate new voice in an often strident world’n Financial Timesn

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‘Adichie uses language with relish. She infuses her English with a robust poetry’ Helen Dunmore, The Times

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‘A powerful account of the Biafran War, horrific and tender in equal measure’ Sunday Telegraph

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'Absolutely awesome. One of the best books I've ever read' Judy Finnigan

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‘I wasted the last fifty pages, reading them far too greedily and fast, because I couldn’t bear to let go … magnificent’ Margaret Forster

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