Claire Adam & Ashley Hickson-Lovence

Dawn Bishop, the protagonist of Claire Adam’s Love Forms, was sixteen whe she left her home in Trinidad and journeyed across the sea to Venezuela. There, she gave birth to a baby girl and returned to Trinidad alone. Dawn tried to carry on with her life: a move to England, a marriage, two sons and a divorce. But she never stopped thinking of her daughter and of what might have been. Forty years later, a woman gets in touch on an internet forum, claiming that she might be her long-lost daughter. Dawn dares to hope that this may be a way back to her past. Could she finally give form to all the love and care a mother has left to offer? 

Set over one weekend in the life of a sixty-six year-old man, About to Fall Apart is Ashley Hickson-Lovence’s thrilling kaleidoscope of thoughts,failures, disappointments and hope.  These lines could change everything / He sips more of his tinny / Imagines a new life  Aidy’s just punched a co- worker, but he hasn’t got time to deal with the fallout. With a deadline fast looming he must get home, knuckle down and finish the story he’s been working on, a story he hasn’t been able to stop thinking about. It’s the story of a falling plane and of a grieving mother.