Love Forms

<p><b>WINNER OF THE ENCORE AWARD</b><br><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND THE JHALAK PRIZE </b><br><b><br>'A quietly devastating masterpiece.' </b>MARIAN KEYES<br><b>'Adam is a master storyteller.' </b>SARA COLLINS<br><b>'Exquisitely written ... compelling and tender.' </b>MONIQUE ROFFEY<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>When Dawn Bishop was sixteen, she left her home in Trinidad and journeyed across the sea to Venezuela. There, she gave birth to a baby girl and returned to Trinidad alone. <br><br>Dawn tried to carry on with her life: a move to England, a marriage, two sons and a divorce. But she never stopped thinking of her daughter and of what might have been. <br><br>Forty years later, a woman gets in touch on an internet forum, claiming that she might be her long-lost daughter. Dawn dares to hope that this may be a way back to her past. Could she finally give form to all the love and care a mother has left to offer?<br><br><b>'Reads like a Claire Keegan short story expanded by Elizabeth Strout.'</b><br><i>THE TIMES </i><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>