Recent News

July 2025

Audio interview. BBC Radio 4, Front Row with Kirsty Wark: We hear from two novelists whose books are centred on motherhood and adoption, Claire Adam and Yrsa Dailey Ward. (30 July)

BBC Radio 4, Front Row: Literary critic Alex Clark examines the Booker Prize longlist which was announced today. (29 July)

Love Forms is longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize. (29 July)

An essay by Claire Adam in People magazine, about the artwork on the cover of the US edition of Love Forms. (28 July)

Love Forms - press review: 'A tender and emotionally complex exploration of what it means to love, to lose, and to long for connection... Adam excels at capturing the quiet ache of a life shaped by what has been lost... The portrayal of this grief—long, low, and lived—is one of the book’s great strengths. Readers won’t find tear-jerking scenes of reunion here, but rather an honest, contemplative portrait of what it means to live with absence...  Claire Adam proves herself once again as a writer of great emotional intelligence, capable of giving voice to characters whose pain is often too quiet to name.' Woman & Home

Audio interview with Claire Adam on Little Atoms podcast.

June 2025

Love Forms featured in Vogue’s best of summer: ‘An unforgettable heartache of a novel.’

Love Forms - press review: 'With its rich creation of all the elements that make up a life, Love Forms achieves a sort of alchemy. Even when there isn’t much happening — accounts of her sons’ jobs; reflections on her marriage — it all goes to nourish the reader’s understanding of Dawn’s character. She feels real. A book that started by tantalising the reader ultimately delivers satisfaction. Dawn, in her quest to plug the hole in her life, makes us ask what success would look like anyway. To find her daughter would be an ending: but life — this life, the only life we have — is all about continuing.' John Self, FT

Love Forms is in The Times list of 80 best books to take on holiday this summer

Love Forms - press review: 'Delicately written and emotionally devastating... It's a tender, tense reverie, elegantly capturing Dawn's secret sorrow' Mail on Sunday 

Love Forms - press review: 'Adam is a thoughtful writer and this is a soulful, unflashy narrative...  a reflective novel that sensitively explores love and motherhood.' Alex Peake-Tomkinson, Spectator

Love Forms - press review: ‘Crushingly tender’ Daily Mail

Interview with Claire Adam in The Irish Times.

Interview with Claire Adam in The Observer.

Love Forms - press review: 'Love Forms is a novel of cumulative force. There's no catharsis or revelation, just the quiet pressure of the past pushing against the present. As the title suggests, it's an examination of two intertwined meanings: the varied forms love takes, and the complex, often strange processes by which love itself forms within us. Claire Adam brings a refreshing seriousness and sincerity to these mysteries. - Ruby Eastwood, The Irish Times

Meet the quiet author - who’s got a champion in Sarah Jessica Parker. The Times feature.

Love Forms - press review: 'Claire Adam’s 2019 novel Golden Child was her debut, but it felt like the work of a master. It was tender, ravishing, shattering – you believed every word of it. The book had an effortless narrative authority that most first-time novelists would kill for. […] Love Forms is every bit as alive and convincing, and returns us to Trinidad, with its potent fizz of colour, heat and political instability. The final pages, which unfold at the family’s beach house on Tobago, are as gripping as any thriller, and the ending, when it comes, feels as right as it is devastating.' - Julie Myerson, The Guardian

Love Forms - trade press review: ‘Adam shines in her characterization of the Bishop family, their fascinating dynamics, brutal honesty, and most of all, their enduring love for one another. The core of this poignant novel is the powerful mother-child bond and its ability to endure long after losing a child.’ - Lillian Dabney, Booklist

May 2025

Love Forms - trade press review: ‘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 down.’ - Publishers Weekly, starred review.

January 2025

Love Forms selected as an upcoming fiction highlight for 2025 by the Evening Standard

Love Forms selected as an upcoming fiction highlight for 2025 by the Irish Times

Love Forms selected as an upcoming fiction highlight in the January 2025 ‘Bocas Bulletin’

Love Forms selected as one of the Sunday Times 40 books of 2025.

December 2024

Love Forms features on Faber Journal

Golden Child in this Sunday Times feature: Sarah Jessica Parker as a Booker judge — why not? She has great taste.

October 2024

Faber announces new novel from Claire Adam.

September 2024

Claire Adam joins the judging panel for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award