
By Philippa Tracy
It has been more than 10 years since Chimananda Ngozi Adichie’s last novel, Americanah , was published. In the intervening years, she has lost both of her parents, had a daughter and twin sons, and delivered a brilliant BBC Reith Lecture on freedom of speech. Adiche is a feminist and a brilliant writer of big novels with complex themes. This one is essentially about women’s lives and