Claire Adam’s first novel, Golden Child, published in 2019, won multiple prizes and was selected as one of the BBC’s ‘100 Novels that Shaped our World’.
Her second novel, Love Forms, published in June 2025, has been longlisted for the Booker Prize.
Originally from Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean, Claire lives in London, UK.
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“In the gripping and heart-rending latest from Adam (Golden Child), a woman searches for the daughter she gave up for adoption decades earlier. ... Readers won’t want to put this one down. ”
“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.’”
“Every bit as good as her debut. It reads like a Claire Keegan story expanded by Elizabeth Strout. ”
“With its rich creation of all the elements that make up a life, Love Forms achieves a sort of alchemy.”
“The final pages... are as gripping as any thriller, and the ending, when it comes, feels as right as it is devastating”