Love Forms by Claire Adam (HC)

In the heart-aching new novel from the author of the award-winning Golden Child, a mother searches for the daughter she left behind a lifetime ago.

Trinidad, 1980: Dawn Bishop, aged 16, leaves her home and journeys across the sea to Venezuela. There, she gives birth to a baby girl, and leaves her with nuns to be given up for adoption.

Dawn tries to carry on with her life - a move to England, a marriage, a career, two sons, a divorce - but through it all, she still thinks of the child she had in Venezuela, and of what might have been.

Then, forty years later, a woman from an internet forum gets in touch. She says that she might be Dawn's long-lost daughter, stirring up a complicated mix of feelings: could this be the person to give form to all the love and care a mother has left to offer?

REVIEWS

"The divorced Trinidadian mother of two adult men is consumed by the loss of her daughter. Beautifully low-pitched, it reads like a hushed conversation overheard in the next room." - Booker Prize judges

"A quietly devastating masterpiece... I can't remember the last time a book has gripped and moved me in this way. I rarely cry, but I howled. This is a standout novel." - Marian Keyes

"I simply could not put it down ... From the very first page, I knew I was in the hands of a master storyteller. An utterly arresting tale of love and grief, of the wounding and healing powers of family, of the many guises of a mother's love. It's an absolute triumph." - Sara Collins

PRODUCT DETAILS
Hardcover Edition
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 978-0571339549
Pages: 304