Love Forms by Claire Adam

When Dawn was sixteen, she had a baby girl that is her biggest secret.  Raised in Trinidad by a wealthy family, she is spirited away to a home in Venezuela run by nuns and has her baby there.  After the birth, Dawn returns to her family and goes on with her life.  She ends up marrying and moving to London with her husband.  The couple has two sons and time moves on.

Now fifty-eight, Dawn is alone.  Her sons are grown and gone while her husband and she have divorced.  She finds herself wondering more and more about the daughter she never got to know and starts looking for her online.  When the entire family returns to Trinidad for a holiday, she finally discovers some answers such as where she was all those years ago and what the home was called.  Now she has concrete clues she can use in her quest.

Claire Adam was born in Trinidad.  Her work has garnered significant acclaim with her first novel, Golden Child, being listed for the Women's Prize In Fiction and this second novel being longlisted for the Booker Prize.  We learn about the yearning a mother feels for her children, whether she has raised them or not and the birth connection that cannot be broken.  This book is recommended for readers of literary fiction.