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A New New Me

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The new novel from a literary star - brilliant and deeply relatable. 'Brilliantly fun.' OBSERVER 'One of the best writers alive today.' STYLIST 'Audacious, incisive and very funny.' DAILY MAIL Kinga is a woman who is just trying to make it through the week. There's a... Read More
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The breakout novel from a literary star - brilliant and deeply relatable from 'One of the best writers alive today.' STYLIST

The breakout novel from a literary star - brilliant and deeply relatable from 'One of the best writers alive today.' STYLIST

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The new novel from a literary star - brilliant and deeply relatable.

'Brilliantly fun.' OBSERVER
'One of the best writers alive today.' STYLIST
'Audacious, incisive and very funny.' DAILY MAIL

Kinga is a woman who is just trying to make it through the week.

There's a Kinga for every day: on Mondays, you can catch Kinga A deleting food delivery apps. By Friday, Kinga E is happy to spend the days soaking, wine-drunk, in the bath.

Kingas A-G, perhaps unsurprisingly, live a varied life - between them is a professional matchmaker, a scent-crazed perfumer and a window cleaner, all with varying degrees of apathy, anger, introversion and bossiness. At least three of them are Team Toxic.

It's an arrangement that's not without its fair share of admin, grudges and half-truths. But when Kinga A discovers a man tied up in their apartment, the Kingas have to reckon with the possibility that one of them might be planning to destroy them all.

Readers loved A New New Me:

'Gleeful . . . Reading this book is like being the kind of drunk where the night dissolves into a chaos of bizarre events.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'This book was both kaleidoscopic but so real . . . desperately need to read more of Oyeyemi's writing!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'Strange, bizarre, funny, so playful . . . There's slapstick comedy, meandering anecdotes, and a tantalising central mystery, which the Kingas will work out, if they just all stop arguing for a minute.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'I LOVED the writing . . . In 7 chapters you get to know Kinga in all her sarcastic glory . . . This was my first Helen Oyeyemi and I will look out for more to read.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780571387540

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 May 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 256

About the Author

Helen Oyeyemi is the author of The Icarus Girl; The Opposite House; White is for Witching, which won the Somerset Maugham Award); Mr Fox' Boy, Snow, Bird' Gingerbread; What is Not Yours is Not Yours; Peaces, which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize; and Parasol Against the Axe. In 2013, Helen was included in Granta's Best of Young British Novelists.

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