Love Forms

In Love Forms, Claire Adam examines the many shapes love can take — romantic, familial, platonic — and the ways it can both sustain and wound us. The novel weaves together multiple narratives across decades, each connected by a single, mysterious artwork that changes hands over time. Adam’s writing is lush but precise, imbuing everyday moments with emotional weight. She is equally skilled at portraying tenderness and cruelty, revealing how love’s forms are never static. By the end, the reader is left with a mosaic of interlinked lives, each altered by their encounters with love in its shifting guises.