The Consequences of Love

Name: The Consequences of Love
Brand: Penguin Random House UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Gavanndra Hodge
ISBN: 9781405946445

Author: Gavanndra Hodge

Narrator: Gavanndra Hodge

Unabridged: 8 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 05/14/2020

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Memoirs, Women, Family & Relationships

Synopsis

Discover the highly anticipated, remarkable and fearless, The Consequences of Love, brought to you by Penguin.

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.

© Gavanndra Hodge 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Reviews

Goodreads review by Laura on November 07, 2020

This was beautiful, heart-wrenching and clearly a labour of love as well as the product of many years of emotional reckoning. I took a bit of a hiatus from reading this when I started my big girl job and suddenly found myself with 0 free time, but once I picked it up again today I finished the rest......more

Goodreads review by Jo_Scho_Reads on February 12, 2023

4.5 stars. Gavanndra Hodge’s childhood was anything but an ordinary one. Her dad was a hairdresser and drug dealer, evenings filled with hangers on sat round the coffee table waiting to score, while her mum was passed out in the bedroom from alcohol. Their lives were teetering on the brink. So when......more

Goodreads review by Chloe on May 09, 2021

I’ve read a lot of memoirs, and it doesn’t feel right to say this is ‘a favourite’ when what Gavanndra experiences is so heart-breaking, but this is definitely one of the most touching, poignant and unputdownable life stories I have read.......more

Goodreads review by Paula on May 17, 2021

I enjoyed this book about growing up with a junkie Dad, alcoholic Mum and loosing a sibling, Candy at a too tender age. The book really charts how she copes or didn't with the aftermath of the tragedy. 'I remained numb, frozen by the shock of what I'd seen. This feeling did not fade: instead I adapt......more

Goodreads review by Raphael on November 20, 2022

This book made me anxious that one day my dad will die lol. Cheerful.......more

Quotes

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