The Consequences of Love

Critics Review

• 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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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