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The Consequences of Love

  • Imprint: Michael Joseph

  • ISBN: 9780241413326

  • Length: 320  Pages

  • Dimensions: 222mm x 31mm x 144mm

  • Weight: 453g

  • RRP: £14.99

The Consequences of Love

THE TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2020

THE GUARDIAN BEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS 2020
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Can you ever rediscover the forgotten memories of someone you lost? Discover the highly anticipated, remarkable and fearless, The Consequences of Love.

'Looks at the power of love and loss in shaping one's life. Moving and beautifully written' Grazia

'Beautifully-written, calm-but-utterly-compelling life-story of trauma and healing... the author seems lovely and I want to be her pal!' Marian Keyes
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Seven-year-old Gavanndra Hodge's life is a precarious place. Her father is a hairdresser and drug dealer to Chelsea's most decadent inhabitants; her mother an alcoholic ex-model. So, it is up to Gavanndra to keep her little sister Candy safe.

But when Candy dies suddenly on holiday aged nine, Gavanndra's family, already so fragile and damaged, implodes.

Now a mother herself, and with only memories of Candy's awful final moments, Gavanndra embarks on a journey to write her way back to the little girl whose death tore her family apart.

The Consequences of Love is a story of loss and recovery, trauma and memory. It is a joyous and compelling account of the strength of the love between sisters and how nothing is ever truly lost if we are brave enough to return to where we began.

'Unflinchingly honest . . . everyone should read it' The Sunday Times

'A wonderful and transformative memoir about the impact of loss and the power of love; and one that illustrates how it is never too late to tackle suppressed grief' Julia Samuel, author of the Sunday Times bestseller This Too Shall Pass: Stories of Change, Crisis and Hopeful Beginnings

I read this in one sitting, tears splashing onto its pages. A beautiful book about grief, losing a sibling, trauma, drugs, parenting & memory in the most exquisite way. Please everyone read it' Emma Gannon, podcaster, author of Olive and founder of The Hyphen Book Club
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  • Imprint: Michael Joseph

  • ISBN: 9780241413326

  • Length: 320  Pages

  • Dimensions: 222mm x 31mm x 144mm

  • Weight: 453g

  • RRP: £14.99

Reviews

  • Unflinchingly honestly. A beautiful book . . . everyone should read it

    The Sunday Times

  • There are scenes that will reduce you to tears, but there's also humour, forgiveness and uplifting optimism [...] by the end of this dazzling debut you just want to give her a huge cheer for coming through

    Evening Standard

  • Wise and moving . . . this memoir is an acknowledgment that love demands a price

    Guardian

  • By turns painful and joyful, this beautiful book has plenty of poignant lessons to teach us about grief and love

    Cosmopolitan

  • Gavanndra writes beautifully, her words are unsentimental but very lyrical [...] I loved this book and my tears fell into the bath as I read it

    Clover Stroud, author of The Sunday Times Bestselling memoir My Wild and Sleepless Nights

  • A devastating, heart-breaking and magnificent meditation on the function of memory. It will stay with me forever, so beautifully written

    Daisy Buchanan, author of The Sisterhood

  • A completely unforgettable and unique family memoir. A total cliché but I honestly couldn't put it down

    Hadley Freeman

  • A real tear-jerker

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  • 'Beautifully-written, calm-but-utterly-compelling life-story of trauma and healing... the author seems lovely and I want to be her pal!'

    Marian Keyes

  • At a time when so many families are losing loved ones, and are denied even the scant comfort funerals provide, there is no more poignant moment for this book to appear

    Emily Hill, The Spectator

About the Author

Gavanndra Hodge

Gavanndra Hodge has worked in newspapers and magazines for over twenty years, at the Daily Mail, Independent, ES Magazine and Tatler, where she was deputy editor and acting editor. In 2018 she left Tatler and became a freelance writer, contributing to publications including the Sunday Times, The Times, Telegraph and ES Magazine. She writes a column for The Times LUXX Magazine about how to talk to children about difficult subjects, such as privilege, grief and fairness, and has interviewed many high profile people, most recently Michael Caine, Margot Robbie and Carey Mulligan.

Gavanndra Hodge

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