The Consequences of Love (Paperback)

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 - i

'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

This is one of the best books I've read about grief - and the catastrophic consequences of addiction. Exquisitely written. Profoundly moving - Robert Peston

Gavanndra Hodge's moving memoir recounts the consequences of an early life framed by beauty, glamour and tragedy - The Observer

A heartbreaking and compelling memoir - Red

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

The must-read of the summer - The Times

So brilliantly written . . . ultimately joyful and uplifting - Daily Mirror

Brave and beautifully written - Elle

There are books - and then there are books that you'll never forget reading. A quite extraordinary memoir - Becky Barrow, News Editor of The Sunday Times

I read it in one sitting without pause. It is an astonishing book. I haven't stopped thinking about it - Charlotte Edwardes, columnist for Sunday Times Style Magazine

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

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

This book is genuinely extraordinary - Eleanor Wood

Life affirming [...] an enrapturing journey through darkness, destructive behaviour and an urgency for light and happiness now - Magic Radio Book Club, May's Book of the Month

A powerful memoir - Laura Whitmore, BBC Radio 5

Timely and highly original - Evening Standard

Brilliant and moving - The Times

The Consequences of Love is undoubtedly one of this year's most hotly-anticipated books, and with good reason - The Sunday Salon podcast with Alice-Azania Jarvis

Brilliantly written and heartbreaking but also joyful and uplifting - Psychologies

Extraordinary . . . profoundly moving - Sunday Mirror

A brave, lyrical, painful tale of bereavement, addiction, and the building of a new life - Joanna Briscoe, Evening Standard

Superbly written. Beautifully written and utterly heartbreaking. Courageous, inspired, bleakly comic, extreme candour - Guardian

Searing - Daily Mail

Hodge's beautiful memoir is both a devastating, grief-fuelled account of her sister's death and a redemptive tale of an emotional reckoning - i

It's a vivid and oddly entertaining memoir, a hand plunged into the dark hole of grief . . . uncovers surprising treasures - most importantly, strength, resilience and love - Mail on Sunday

Searing. A masterful writer with a gift for storytelling. Her prose is rich with detail, combining a sharp sense of place with escalating drama. A triumph - i

The most moving, most exquisitely written book about addiction, grief, loss and coming to terms with trauma even decades on. One that you will be thinking about, and remember long after finishing - Quintessentially

One of the most beautiful memoirs I've ever read. This story will say with you long after you put the book down - Emma Gannon

I just turned the last page (reluctantly!). A bold, often brutal exploration of memory, grief and love. Full of hope and heart. I can't recommend it enough - Terri White, author of Coming Undone

A brave, brilliant book that is both beautiful and important. Read it then buy it for all your friends - Hello!

Gavanndra's memoir The Consequences of Love is absolutely beautiful. It's compelling, heartbreaking, sweet, honest, fascination. I recommend it HIGHLY. I absolutely LOVED it. - Marian Keyes

This stunning exploration of grief is so well written and profoundly moving - Good Housekeeping

An elegant study of grief and memory - Guardian

Hodge pours heartbreak and love into the pages of a book that never pretends to know the answers, and is all the better for it - Sunday Times

An elegant study of grief and memory - Guardian Weekly

An eye-opening snapshot of the fashion world in '90s London - Vogue UK