Love Forms

<p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE ENCORE AWARD </b><br><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND THE JHALAK PRIZE </b><br><b><br>A Book of the Year in <i>The Times </i>and <i>The Critic</i><br><br>'A quietly devastating masterpiece'. </b>MARIAN KEYES<br><b>'Adam is a master storyteller.' </b>SARA COLLINS<br><b>'<i>Love Forms</i> achieves a sort of alchemy.' </b><i>FINANCIAL TIMES</i><br><b>'Reads like a Claire Keegan short story expanded by Elizabeth Strout.' </b><i>THE TIMES</i><br><b><br>In the heart-aching new novel from the author of the award–winning <i>Golden Child</i>, a mother searches for the daughter she left behind a lifetime ago.</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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?<br><br><br><b>'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.'</b><br>SARA COLLINS<br><b>'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.'</b><br>MONIQUE ROFFEY<br><b>'An arresting voice that made me think of silk: its delicate beauty belies its intrinsic strength.'</b><br>CLAIRE KILROY<br><b>'A compelling read taking us to the heart of difficult family situations and evocative secret places.'</b><br>ROMESH GUNESEKERA</p>