Love Forms by Claire Adam [Paperback]

Love Forms is a deeply emotional literary novel about motherhood, loss, family secrets, and the enduring bonds between parent and child.

In 1980, sixteen-year-old Dawn Bishop travels from Trinidad to Venezuela, gives birth to a daughter, and leaves the baby to be adopted. Over the next forty years, she builds a life in England—marriage, children, and a career—but never stops thinking about the daughter she left behind.

When a woman contacts her decades later, claiming she might be that lost daughter, Dawn is forced to confront her past and the complicated emotions of regret, hope, guilt, and love.

The novel explores whether love can survive separation and whether fractured family relationships can ever truly be healed.