Donna McDowell's choice: The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Each month this winter, we’ll read a novel introduced by someone who loves it, and then have a date to meet them and each other on Twitter to talk about it. Join us as we read our way through winter!

For our final read this winter, Donna McDowell invites us to join her in reading The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a collection of searing and profound short stories suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing.

Watch her introduce the book and why she loves it below.

Available in paperback, if you’re buying a copy of the book online, you might want to try the online bookshop that supports Independent bookshops and which has it in stock Bookshop.org

You are very welcome to join the bookclub for free but if you were able to make a donation as you registered we’d be very grateful.