Category: General Fiction
Language: EnglishKeywords: Family
Written by Claire Adam
Read by Melanie La Barrie
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Longlisted for The Booker Prize 2025
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 when she was a teenager growing up in the Caribbean, from the prize-winning author of Golden Child
For much of her life, Dawn has felt as if something had been missing. Now, at the age of fifty-eight, with a divorce behind her and her two grown-up sons busy with their own lives, she should be trying to settle into a new future for herself. But she keeps returning to the past and to the secret sheâs kept all these years. At just sixteen, Dawn found herself pregnant, andâas was common in Trinidad back thenâher parents sent her away to have the baby and give her up for adoption.
More than forty years later, Dawn yearns to reconnect with her lost daughter. But tracking down her child is not as easy as she had thought. Itâs an emotional journey that leads Dawn to retrace her steps back home and to question not only that fateful decision sheâd made as a teenager but every turn in the road of her life since.
Love Forms is a powerfully moving story of a woman in search of herselfâa novel that rings with heartfelt empathy through the passages of a motherâs life, depicting the enduring bonds of love, family, and home.
Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
Release date: 07-29-25
Longlisted for The Booker Prize 2025
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 when she was a teenager growing up in the Caribbean, from the prize-winning author of Golden Child
For much of her life, Dawn has felt as if something had been missing. Now, at the age of fifty-eight, with a divorce behind her and her two grown-up sons busy with their own lives, she should be trying to settle into a new future for herself. But she keeps returning to the past and to the secret sheâs kept all these years. At just sixteen, Dawn found herself pregnant, andâas was common in Trinidad back thenâher parents sent her away to have the baby and give her up for adoption.
More than forty years later, Dawn yearns to reconnect with her lost daughter. But tracking down her child is not as easy as she had thought. Itâs an emotional journey that leads Dawn to retrace her steps back home and to question not only that fateful decision sheâd made as a teenager but every turn in the road of her life since.
Love Forms is a powerfully moving story of a woman in search of herselfâa novel that rings with heartfelt empathy through the passages of a motherâs life, depicting the enduring bonds of love, family, and home.
Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
Release date: 07-29-25