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The Consequences of Love

By: Gavanndra Hodge
Narrated by: Gavanndra Hodge
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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.

©2020 Gavanndra Hodge (P)2020 Penguin Audio Grief & Loss Personal Development Relationships Women Heartfelt

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Best audio book I have listened to. Haunting and harrowing account of how we cope with what life throws at us, yet full of love.

Beautiful memoir

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Really enjoyed listening to this story of a chaotic upbringing and the circumstances that surrounded it. The narrator is the author and comes across as genuine and sincere. The story of her relationships with her larger than life father and the loss of her younger sister is fascinating. The story jumps between the events of her growing up and recent times where she tries to comes to terms with her childhood and the loss of her sister. A very moving account with a happy ending

Fascinating story of family life and loss

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Undoubtedly the finest biography I’ve encountered since the wonderful Motherwell by Deborah Orr- if you enjoyed that one, I believe you will take to this too.

Listening to, rather than reading allowed me to hear the authors voice and better experience the emotions her often traumatic recollections inspire. It’s told with such honesty and at times dark humour that it is never less than palatable.

Can’t recommend highly enough.

Beautiful, honest and poignant

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I did enjoy this memoir. It was a very well-written account of an eye-popping adolescence. Hodge’s charismatic father was a drug addict, drug dealer, celebrity hairdresser and philanderer with a penchant for schoolgirls.

Hodge’s deep affection for her father in spite of his many flaws, is touching. The passages about the death of her nine year old sister are tragic but also raise more questions than they answer. The author is at pains to stress her sister was struck down by an airborne virus but most readers will wonder about parental lassitude.

The author is a patchy narrator - often great but then she slows down for no reason and stressed odd words a la Robert Peston who by strange coincidence has written a rave review blurb about the book!

The unsung hero of the book is Hodge’s mother. She doesn’t feature that much but surely without her devoted care, Hodge wouldn’t have got into Cambridge and become such a talented writer.




Engaging memoir

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Completely riveting and entertaining, but also SO beautifully written. I gulped it down - wished I’d paced myself as now feel bereft. Brilliant.‬

Intimate but entertaining

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