About Claire
I’m originally from Trinidad & Tobago in the Caribbean.
Now I live in London, UK.
Read more in this interview in Caribbean Beat magazine.
Some writing to read online here…
A nice, non-fiction piece about ‘Home’. (Everyone likes this piece.)
My essay on the first line of ‘A Hundred Years of Solitude’ on LitHub.
An excerpt from ‘Golden Child’.
Some reviews I’ve written here…
My review of Another Man in the Street by Caryl Phillips for the Irish Times (January 2025)
My review of Juice by Tim Winton, for the Irish Times (October 2024)
My review of The Pages of the Sea by Anne Hawk for the Guardian. (July 2024)
My review of Cinema Love by Jiaming Tang for the Guardian. (June 2024)
Recent News
January 2025
Love Forms selected as an upcoming fiction highlight for 2025 by the Evening Standard
Love Forms selected as an upcoming fiction highlight for 2025 by the Irish Times
Love Forms selected as an upcoming fiction highlight in the January 2025 ‘Bocas Bulletin’
Love Forms selected as one of the Sunday Times 40 books of 2025.
December 2024
Love Forms features on Faber Journal
Golden Child in this Sunday Times feature: Sarah Jessica Parker as a Booker judge — why not? She has great taste.
October 2024
Faber announces new novel from Claire Adam.
September 2024
Claire Adam joins the judging panel for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award
Contact via:
UK agent: Zoe Waldie at RCW Literary Agency
US agent: Melanie Jackson
Faber (UK): sophie.clarke@faber.co.uk
Hogarth (USA): erichards@penguinrandomhouse.com
Foreign rights: Laurence Laluyaux at RCW Literary Agency
Film and TV: Jane Villiers at Sayle Screen