For Adults
Faber are offering 3 lucky library book clubs the chance to win a set of up to 5 paperback copies of Love Forms by Claire Adam for their next club meeting. In this heart-aching, Booker Longlisted novel from the author of the award-winning Golden Child, a mother searches for the daughter she left behind a lifetime ago.
To enter, please contact sophie.clarke@faber.co.uk and let us know why you think your group would enjoy reading Love Forms. This offer will expire on 1 June and copies will be sent out at the start of June.
ABOUT THE BOOK
‘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
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?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Claire Adam was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago. She was educated in the US and now lives in London with her husband and two children. Her first novel Golden Child won multiple prizes and was named one of the BBC’s ‘100 Novels that Shaped the World’.
