Love Forms by Claire Adam
This powerful Booker-longlisted novel explores the ripples that shape a life. The story opens with Dawn aged 16, being swept from Trinidad to Venezuela to give birth and give up her baby. The writing is extraordinarily vivid, with a vulnerable girl in a small boat crossing a turbulent sea, and the trauma of childbirth followed by the pain of silence and shame. The book follows two threads, as we learn both what led Dawn to take this journey and how it has coloured her life since, bringing us to the present day and Dawn, forty years later, living London and receiving an email from a woman claiming to be her daughter. In a novel full of tension and beauty, Claire Adam paints a world where the past refuses to lie quiet, until all we can do is respond.
Blog by Judy Darley, Trustee
Claire Adam will be in conversation about Love Forms from 5-6pm on Sunday 14 June at the Walton Park Hotel. Find out more and book tickets for just £6.