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A Novel
by Claire Adam
A heart-stirring novel about a mother's love, in all its forms, as a woman searches for the daughter she gave up for adoption, from the prize-winning author of Golden Child.
For much of her life, Dawn has felt as if something is missing. Now, at the age of fifty-eight, with a divorce behind her and her two grown-up sons busy with their own lives, she should be trying to settle into a new future for herself. But she keeps returning to the past and to the secret she's kept all these years. At just sixteen, Dawn found herself pregnant, and—as was common in Trinidad back then—her parents sent her away to have the baby and give her up for adoption.
More than forty years later, Dawn yearns to reconnect with her lost daughter. But tracking down her child is not as easy as she had thought. It's an emotional journey that leads Dawn to retrace her steps—from Trinidad to Venezuela and then to London—and to question not only that fateful decision she'd made as a teenager but every turn in the road of her life since.
Love Forms is a powerfully moving story of a woman in search of herself—a novel that rings with heartfelt empathy through the passages of a mother's life, depicting the enduring bonds of love, family, and home.
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"Gripping and heart-rending...The heart of the novel is in Dawn's attempt to make sense of the trajectory of her life...Readers won't want to put this down." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Adam shines in her characterization of the Bishop family, their fascinating dynamics, brutal honesty, and most of all, their enduring love for one another. The core of this poignant novel is the powerful mother-child bond and its ability to endure even long after losing a child." —Booklist
"Alive and convincing...The final pages, which unfold at the family's beach house on Tobago, are as gripping as any thriller, and the ending, when it comes, feels as right as it is devastating." —The Guardian
"A beautiful story full of vibrance and heart...Love Forms explores what it means to be a woman and what it means to love. Moving between London and Trinidad and Tobago, Claire Adam explores the complexities of family and place, what it means to be home, and the sacrifices we make for the people we love." —Amanda Peters, bestselling author of The Berry Pickers
"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, internationally bestselling author of My Favorite Mistake
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Claire Adam's debut novel, Golden Child, was published by Sarah Jessica Parker's SJP for Hogarth. It was listed as one of the BBC's "100 Novels That Shaped Our World" and was awarded the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award, and the McKitterick Prize. She was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago. She studied physics at Brown University and later received an MA in creative writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. Adam lives in London.
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