{"product_id":"9780571339563","title":"Love Forms : Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 - Claire Adam","description":"\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE ENCORE AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND THE JHALAK PRIZE 'A quietly devastating masterpiece.' MARIAN KEYES'Adam is a master storyteller.' SARA COLLINS'Exquisitely written ... compelling and tender.' MONIQUE ROFFEYIn 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. 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. 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. 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?'Reads like a Claire Keegan short story expanded by Elizabeth Strout.'THE TIMES '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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Claire Adam","offers":[{"title":"304 pages \/ 21\/05\/2026 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":57044534231415,"sku":"9780571339563","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9780571339563.jpg?v=1780928680","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9780571339563","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}