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Unflinchingly honestly. A beautiful book . . . everyone should read it
The Sunday Times
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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
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Wise and moving . . . this memoir is an acknowledgment that love demands a price
Guardian
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By turns painful and joyful, this beautiful book has plenty of poignant lessons to teach us about grief and love
Cosmopolitan
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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
author of The Sunday Times Bestselling memoir My Wild and Sleepless Nights
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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
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A completely unforgettable and unique family memoir. A total cliché but I honestly couldn’t put it down
Hadley Freeman
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A real tear-jerker
i
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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
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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
The Spectator
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This is one of the best books I’ve read about grief – and the catastrophic consequences of addiction. Exquisitely written. Profoundly moving
Robert Peston
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Gavanndra Hodge’s moving memoir recounts the consequences of an early life framed by beauty, glamour and tragedy
The Observer
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A heartbreaking and compelling memoir
Red
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Looks at the power of love and loss in shaping one’s life. Moving and beautifully written
Grazia
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The must-read of the summer
The Times
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So brilliantly written . . . ultimately joyful and uplifting
Daily Mirror
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Brave and beautifully written
Elle
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There are books – and then there are books that you’ll never forget reading. A quite extraordinary memoir
News Editor of The Sunday Times
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I read it in one sitting without pause. It is an astonishing book. I haven’t stopped thinking about it
columnist for Sunday Times Style Magazine
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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
author of the Sunday Times Bestseller This Too Shall Pass
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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
podcaster, author of Olive and founder of The Hyphen Book Club
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This book is genuinely extraordinary
Eleanor Wood
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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
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A powerful memoir
BBC Radio 5
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Timely and highly original
Evening Standard
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Brilliant and moving
The Times
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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
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Brilliantly written and heartbreaking but also joyful and uplifting
Psychologies
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Extraordinary . . . profoundly moving
Sunday Mirror
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A brave, lyrical, painful tale of bereavement, addiction, and the building of a new life
Evening Standard
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Superbly written. Beautifully written and utterly heartbreaking. Courageous, inspired, bleakly comic, extreme candour
Guardian
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Searing
Daily Mail
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A brave, brilliant book that is both beautiful and important. Read it then buy it for all your friends
Hello!
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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
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This stunning exploration of grief is so well written and profoundly moving
Good Housekeeping
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An elegant study of grief and memory
Guardian
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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
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An elegant study of grief and memory
Guardian Weekly
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An eye-opening snapshot of the fashion world in ’90s London
Vogue UK