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Book cover for 'Love Forms' by Claire Adam, featuring a torn-paper collage with a green background, a peeled mandarin orange, a peeled lemon, and a blue textured element.
“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. ”
— Publishers Weekly (Starred review)
“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.’”
— The Booker Prize 2025 judges
A copy of the book "Love Forms" by Claire Adam with a floral cover, placed on a yellow checkered table. Nearby, there is a red pen, a pen with a gold clip, a box of chocolates, and some chocolate shavings. In the top left corner, there is a stack of cards or papers in a box and a logo with the text "The Booker Prize 2025" and the hashtag "#BookerPrize2025".
Graphic of a book with the text 'The Booker Prize 2025 Longlisted'
“Every bit as good as her debut. It reads like a Claire Keegan story expanded by Elizabeth Strout. ”
— Johanna Thomas-Corr, The Times
“With its rich creation of all the elements that make up a life, Love Forms achieves a sort of alchemy.”
— John Self, The FT
Book cover titled 'Love Forms' by Claire Adam, featuring a colorful floral illustration with various flowers on a blue background.
“The final pages... are as gripping as any thriller, and the ending, when it comes, feels as right as it is devastating”
— Julie Myerson, Guardian
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