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A New New Me (Hardback)

Helen Oyeyemi

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

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Format
Hardback
ISBN
9780571387526
Date Published
08.05.2025

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Summary

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 Kinga’s 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.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Critic Reviews

Always very funny . . . A comedy about the masks we wear, if you will, as well as an existential mystery [...] The denouement, when it finally comes, is so gloriously absurd, you can’t help but salute Oyeyemi’s knack for artful nonsense. She is a gleefully unapologetic trickster.

Guardian, 'Book of the Day'

Critic Reviews

Much of the novel's pleasure comes from its intramural politics. The Kingas squabble, kibbitz and conspire . . . A New New Me pushes the logic of perpetual upgrades to the point that self-help is indistinguishable from self-erasure.

New York Times

Critic Reviews

Screams ‘commercial break out’ . . . An audacious, incisive and very funny novel about self knowledge in today’s tech mediated age.

Daily Mail

Critic Reviews

Helen Oyeyemi is one of the most imaginative writers around, and her latest – A New New Me – might be her best yet . . It’s fast-paced, funny, a bit dark and totally unique [...] Absolutely worth the ride.

Press Association

Critic Reviews

Any ideas of where the plot might be going will most definitely be derailed by Oyeyemi’s dizzyingly funny narrative. But the story’s crowning jewel is the author’s ability to create seven unique voices belonging to one individual.

New Statesman

Critic Reviews

A brilliantly fun set-up . . . In a sense it becomes a whodunnit as told through a kaleidoscope . . . There is hardly a sentence here that won’t make you smile.

Observer

HelenOyeyemi

Helen Oyeyemi’s books include Mr. Fox, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours and Gingerbread. She’s a recipient of the Somerset Maugham Award, and her novel, Peaces, was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize.

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