Claire Adam Love Forms review, recensie en informatie roman van de op Trinidad geboren schrijfster. Op 19 juni 2025 verschijnt bij Faber & Faber de roman over Trinidad van Claire Adam. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.
Claire Adam Love Forms review en recensie
- “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.” (Sarah Collins)
- “A compelling read, full of secrets and the complexities of family and a rich sense of place.” (Romesh Gunesekera)
- “Gripping and heart-rending (…) The heart of the novel is in Dawn’s attempt to make sense of the trajectory of her life. . . . Readers won’t want to put this down.” (Publishers Weekly)
- “Claire Adam returns to Trinidad for her sophomore novel. We first meet Dawn, a pregnant 16-year-old, on a clandestine journey across the sea to Venezuela. There, she gives birth and returns home without the baby, just as her parents had prescribed. Now, at 58, Dawn is the divorced mother of two adult men, but the loss of the baby girl consumes her every move. The story, heartbreaking in its own right, comes second to its narration. Dawn’s voice haunts us still, with its beautiful and quiet urgency. Love Forms is a rare and low-pitched achievement. It reads like a hushed conversation overheard in the next room.” (Jury Booker Prize 2025)
Love Forms
- Auteur: Claire Adams (Trinidad en Tobago)
- Soort boek: Trinidadaanse roman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Faber & Faber
- Verschijnt: 19 juni 2025
- Omvang: 304 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
- Prijs: £ 16,99
- Longlist Booker Prize 2025
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de roman over Trinidad van Claire Adam
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?
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’.