A New New Me

A Novel

De: Helen Oyeyemi

From the award-winning, bestselling “literary pied piper” (The New York Times Book Review) who brought us Boy, Snow, Bird and Gingerbread comes a charmingly surreal novel about self-sabotage, self-deception, self-love—and the many selves inside us sparring for control.

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.

An account of seven particularly busy days in an already hectic inner life from master storyteller Helen Oyeyemi, A New New Me cleverly asks: what if the different sides of your personality had trust issues with each other? How many versions of oneself can one self safely contain?

©2025 Helen Oyeyemi (P)2025 Hamish Hamilton

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Praise for A New New Me:

“A wild ride. . . . [A New New Me] belongs with Oyeyemi’s more recent works: playful, self-aware tales that revel in the hijinks of storytelling. . . . 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.”
—The Guardian (UK)

"Dizzyingly funny. . . . The story’s crowning jewel is the author’s ability to create seven unique voices belonging to one individual.”
―The New Statesman (UK)

“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

“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.”
―The Observer (UK)

“Screams ‘commercial break out’. . . . An audacious, incisive and very funny novel about self knowledge in today’s tech mediated age.”
―Daily Mail (UK)