Love Forms
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025
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LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025
A Book of the Year in The Times and The Critic
'A quietly devastating masterpiece'. MARIAN KEYES
'Adam is a master storyteller.' SARA COLLINS
'Love Forms achieves a sort of alchemy.' FINANCIAL TIMES
'Reads like a Claire Keegan short story expanded by Elizabeth Strout.' THE TIMES
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?
'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
'Exquisitely written. A compelling and tender story of what - and who - is hidden in almost every family that feels as old as the hills and yet acutely contemporary.'
MONIQUE ROFFEY
'An arresting voice that made me think of silk: its delicate beauty belies its intrinsic strength.'
CLAIRE KILROY
'A compelling read taking us to the heart of difficult family situations and evocative secret places.'
ROMESH GUNESEKERA
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In the gripping and heart-rending latest from Adam (Golden Child), a woman searches for the daughter she gave up for adoption decades earlier. When Dawn Bishop got pregnant at 16 in 1980, her wealthy parents, owners of a popular juice company in Trinidad and Tobago, sent her away to have the baby. Now 58 and a recently divorced former doctor in London with two grown sons, she decides she's ready to break the silence about her long-ago "mistake," as her parents called it. Hints of regret and holes in her memory pervade her narration as Dawn attempts to fit together the "disconnected pieces" of her life. She begins with her father taking action after he found out she was pregnant, arranging a harrowing journey for her with smugglers to Venezuela, where she had the baby in a convent. In the present day, she returns from London to Trinidad and Tobago, where her older brother helps her dig up clues about her daughter, but the heart of the novel is in Dawn's attempt to make sense of the trajectory of her life: "Maybe my story wasn't: Dawn, who made a mistake and brought shame to her family. Maybe it's: Dawn, mortal woman, who took a wrong turn in life and got lost." Readers won't want to put this down.