'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
