Author of Golden Child and Love Forms.
Claire Adam was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago, with regular trips to Ireland to visit her mother's family in Cork. She left Trinidad at 18, took an undergrad science degree in the US (Brown, 1996), then lived in Italy and Ireland for a few years before settling in the UK.
Her first novel, Golden Child, was published in 2019 by Faber (UK) and SJP for Hogarth (USA). It was featured on BBC Radio 4's 'Book at Bedtime', NBC's 'Late Night with Seth Meyers', the NBC 'Today' show, and was named one of BBC’s ‘100 Novels that Changed the World. It was awarded the Desmond Elliott Prize, the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award and the McKitterick Prize, and has been optioned for film production. It was named as a 'Book of the Year' by the Evening Standard and The Times.
Her second novel, Love Forms, set in Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela and the UK, was published by Faber (UK) and Hogarth (USA) in 2025. It was longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize, won the Society of Authors Encore Prize and was named as a 'Book of the Year' by The Times, The Critic, News24 and NPR.
Claire's work has been translated into a dozen languages.
She lives in London with her husband and two children.
A father steps out into the night to search for his son. As the hours turn into days, this man will learn many things. He will learn about sacrifice and the nature of love - and he will be forced to act. Claire Adam's electrifying first novel reckons with the secrets of the human heart.
“A quiet explosion of a novel from a bright new voice in fiction.” — SUNDAY TIMES
“When SJP tells you to read a book, you really should…reminiscent of Arundhati Roy” — DAILY TELEGRAPH
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A heart-stirring novel about a mother’s love, in all its forms, as a woman searches for the daughter she gave up for adoption 40 years earlier.
“The final pages are as gripping as any thriller… and the ending, when it comes, feels as right as it is devastating.” — GUARDIAN
“Love Forms achieves a sort of alchemy.” — FT
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