Claire Adam

Claire Adam grew up in Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean – but spent many summers in west Cork (Lough Hyne) with her Irish family, and lived in Cork for a year after graduating from college. Claire studied Physics at undergraduate level in the US, and later took an MA in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her first novel, Golden Child, was published in 2019 by Faber (UK) and SJP for Hogarth (USA), and in translation. It was featured on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Book at Bedtime’, 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 Author’s 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, with multiple translations forthcoming. It was longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize, and was named as a ‘Book of the Year’ by The Times, The Critic, News24 and NPR.